Text Cleaner
Remove messy spaces, breaks and formatting.
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What is a text cleaner?
A text cleaner is a small tool that takes text you copied from somewhere else and tidies it up. When you paste from an email, a PDF, a website or a Word document, hidden formatting often comes along: double spaces, stray tabs, extra line breaks, empty lines and broken paragraphs. This tool removes extra spaces and line breaks in one click so you get plain, readable text you can reuse anywhere, and it all runs in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
Remove extra spaces, line breaks and blank lines
The three defaults handle the most common mess in one pass. Collapse extra spaces turns any run of double spaces or stray tabs into a single space; trim line ends removes trailing spaces; and collapse multiple blank lines shrinks big vertical gaps down to one. Add a few more options and the cleaner also strips leftover timestamps, smart quotes, bullet symbols and Markdown, leaving only your words.
What the text cleaner removes
Every option is independent, so you keep what you need and switch off the rest. Here is what the most-used options do:
| Option | Removes / fixes | Example in → out |
|---|---|---|
| Collapse extra spaces | Double spaces and stray tabs | Hello there → Hello there |
| Trim line ends | Trailing spaces on each line | Done → Done |
| Collapse blank lines | Repeated empty lines | 3 blank lines → 1 blank line |
| Remove empty lines | All blank lines | gaps → none |
| Normalize line breaks | Broken PDF/Windows breaks | line1\r\nline2 → clean breaks |
| Convert smart quotes | Curly quotes and dashes | “hi” — → "hi" - |
How to clean text
Paste your text into the top box, glance at the character, word and line counts, then choose which options you want. Click Clean text and the result appears below with its own counts. Copy it, download it as a .txt or .md file, or swap it back up to run another pass. Cleaning up a script or speech? Drop the tidied word count into the words to time calculator to see how long it runs.
Common uses: email, PDF copy and web
People reach for a text cleaner after copying a quote out of a PDF, lifting a paragraph from a web page full of hidden markup, or pasting an email reply with awkward line breaks. In each case the goal is the same: turn cluttered text into clean text in one click, with nothing leaving your browser.
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Frequently asked questions
What does a text cleaner actually do?
It rewrites messy pasted text into clean text. It collapses runs of extra spaces, trims each line, removes empty and repeated blank lines, and can strip stray timestamps or formatting, all in one pass.
How do I remove extra spaces and blank lines?
Keep the default options on (collapse extra spaces, trim line ends, collapse multiple blank lines), paste your text, then click Clean text. Double spaces become single spaces and big vertical gaps shrink to one blank line.
Can it fix text copied from a PDF?
Yes. PDF copy often arrives with broken line breaks and odd spacing. Normalize line breaks and collapse extra spaces handle most of it, and you can add turn line breaks into paragraphs for flowing text.
Is my text sent anywhere?
No. The cleaner runs entirely in your browser with simple text rules. Nothing is uploaded, stored, or sent to a server.
How do I remove line breaks but keep my paragraphs?
Leave collapse multiple blank lines on and keep turn line breaks into paragraphs off. Big vertical gaps shrink to a single blank line while the paragraph breaks you want are preserved. To merge every line into one block instead, you can trim lines and collapse blank lines together.
Can it remove all spaces and tabs at once?
Collapse extra spaces turns any run of spaces or tabs into a single space, which fixes double spaces and stray tabs from PDF or web copy. It keeps one space between words so the text stays readable rather than glued together.
How do I undo the cleanup?
Use Swap input/output to move the cleaned result back into the input box, adjust the options, and clean again. Reset clears both boxes to start over.
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