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Remove Line Breaks & Extra Spaces

Clean up text copied from PDFs, emails and websites — remove unwanted line breaks while keeping paragraphs, and collapse tabs and repeated spaces.

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When should you use the Remove Line Breaks?
  • Fixing text copied from a PDF where every line breaks mid-sentence
  • Joining a list into a single line
  • Removing double spaces, tabs and blank lines before publishing
How to use the Remove Line Breaks
  1. 1
    Paste text
    Paste the text you want to clean up.
  2. 2
    Choose what to do with line breaks
    Keep paragraphs, replace every break with a space, remove them entirely, or only remove empty lines.
  3. 3
    Clean spaces
    Collapse repeated spaces, replace tabs and trim each line.
  4. 4
    Copy
    Copy the clean text or download it.
Examples
PDF text with broken lines
Before
This text was copied
from a PDF, so every line
breaks in the   wrong place.
After
This text was copied from a PDF, so every line breaks in the wrong place.
Common errors and how to fix them
Paragraphs got merged
Choose 'Remove, keep paragraphs'. Paragraphs must be separated by a blank line to be kept.
Words are stuck together
You chose 'Remove all (no space)'. Use 'Replace all with a space' instead.
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Remove Line Breaks FAQ
Choose 'Remove, keep paragraphs'. Lines within a paragraph are joined with a space, while blank lines between paragraphs are kept.
PDFs store text line by line as it appears on the page, so copying it keeps a hard break at the end of every visual line.
Yes — runs of normal and non-breaking spaces are collapsed when 'Collapse extra spaces' is on.
Yes — choose 'Replace all with a space'. To join with commas instead, use Find and Replace in your editor afterwards.
No fixed limit — large documents are processed quickly in your browser.
No. Everything runs in your browser, so your text never leaves your device.