Text Cleaner
Remove extra spaces, line breaks, duplicate lines and empty lines from any text — clean up copied text instantly.
About the Text Cleaner
This free text cleaner tidies messy text in one click. Tick the clean-ups you need — remove extra spaces, delete all line breaks, strip empty lines, drop duplicate lines, trim whitespace from each line — then press Clean text. It is perfect for fixing text copied from PDFs, emails, spreadsheets and web pages, which often arrives full of stray spaces and broken lines.
Each option targets a specific problem. Removing extra spaces collapses runs of spaces and tabs into one. Removing line breaks joins everything into a single flowing paragraph, which fixes the hard line-wrapping PDFs are notorious for. Removing empty lines closes vertical gaps, deduplicating lines cleans exported lists, and trimming removes invisible leading and trailing whitespace that breaks comparisons and imports.
Before-and-after character counts show exactly how much clutter was removed, and the cleaned result has its own copy button. Everything runs locally in your browser, so even large documents clean instantly and nothing you paste is ever uploaded.
How to Use the Text Cleaner
- 1Paste the messy text into the input box.
- 2Tick the cleaning options you want to apply.
- 3Click "Clean text" to process it.
- 4Copy the cleaned result and check the before/after counts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I remove line breaks from text copied from a PDF?
Paste the text, tick "Remove all line breaks" and "Remove extra spaces", then click Clean text. PDFs hard-wrap every line, so pasting into Word or an email scatters line breaks mid-sentence. This tool replaces each break with a space and collapses doubles, giving you one continuous, correctly spaced paragraph.
How do I remove duplicate lines from a list?
Paste your list with one item per line, tick "Remove duplicate lines" and click Clean text. The tool keeps the first occurrence of each line and deletes exact repeats that follow. Tick "Trim each line" too so that entries differing only by invisible leading or trailing spaces are treated as the same item.
What counts as an extra space?
Any run of two or more consecutive spaces or tab characters within a line is collapsed to a single space. Single spaces between words are untouched. This fixes double spaces after sentences, tab-indented paste-overs from spreadsheets and the irregular spacing that appears when copying from justified PDF layouts.
Can I apply several clean-ups at the same time?
Yes — tick any combination of the five options and they are applied together in a sensible order: line breaks are handled first, then each line is trimmed, extra spaces collapsed, empty lines dropped and duplicates removed. The before-and-after character counts confirm how much was stripped out.
Is my text safe to paste here?
Yes. The cleaning is done entirely by JavaScript running in your browser. Your text is never transmitted to a server, stored or logged, and it disappears when you leave the page — safe for contracts, client data and other sensitive content.