Text copied from PDFs, emails and web pages is often full of double spaces, hard line breaks and invisible characters. Clean it in one step.
How to use the Remove Extra Spaces & Line Breaks
- 1 Paste the messy text.
- 2 Tick the clean-up rules you need — the output updates live.
- 3 Copy the cleaned text.
Worked examples
Input: This is a broken line
Result: This is a broken line
Collapse spaces + remove line breaks
Invisible characters
Non-breaking spaces (U+00A0), zero-width spaces (U+200B) and byte-order marks (U+FEFF) look like nothing but break searches, comparisons and code. This tool normalises them to plain spaces or removes them.
Fixing text copied from PDFs
PDFs often insert a hard line break at the end of every visual line. Enable remove all line breaks to rejoin paragraphs, or collapse blank lines to keep paragraph breaks while removing extra spacing.
Private by design
All processing happens in your browser. Your text is never uploaded, logged or stored on a server.
Frequently asked questions
How do I remove double spaces?
Keep "Collapse multiple spaces" ticked — every run of spaces becomes a single space.
Will this remove paragraph breaks?
Only if you tick "Remove all line breaks". "Collapse blank lines" keeps single paragraph breaks.
What are zero-width spaces?
Invisible Unicode characters often added by web editors; they are removed automatically.
Related tools
Word Counter
Count words, characters, sentences and paragraphs, with reading time, speaking time, readability and keyword density.
Case Converter
Convert text to UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case, Sentence case, camelCase, snake_case, kebab-case and more.
Remove Duplicate Lines
Remove duplicate lines from a list while keeping the original order, with case-insensitive and trimming options.
Reverse Text
Reverse text by characters, word order, line order, or flip each word in place.
Sort Text Lines
Sort text lines alphabetically A–Z or Z–A, naturally, numerically, by length or randomly, with optional de-duplication.
Find and Replace
Find and replace text with case-sensitive, whole-word and regular-expression options, and see the number of replacements.