Text Cleaner
Remove extra spaces, line breaks and formatting from text.
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How to Use
- 1Paste your messy text.
- 2Choose the cleaning options you need.
- 3Copy the cleaned result.
Features
- Trim extra spaces and tabs
- Collapse repeated line breaks
- Remove non-printable characters
Example
Input
Hello world
Output
Hello world
Clean up messy text by trimming extra whitespace, collapsing repeated line breaks, and removing invisible formatting characters.
Fix messy copied text
Text copied from PDFs, web pages, emails and old documents often arrives with double spaces, tabs, spaces at line ends, piles of blank lines and invisible control characters. The Text Cleaner tidies all of that in one pass, with four options you can switch on or off.
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Trim extra spaces | Turns runs of spaces and tabs into a single space and removes spaces at the start and end of every line |
| Collapse blank lines | Reduces three or more line breaks to a single blank line between paragraphs |
| Remove all line breaks | Joins everything into one continuous paragraph |
| Remove non-printable characters | Deletes invisible control characters while keeping tabs and line breaks |
Fixing text copied from a PDF
PDFs store text as positioned lines, not paragraphs, so copying from one usually gives you a hard line break at the end of every visual line. Turn on Remove all line breaks to rejoin a single paragraph into flowing text that will wrap properly in an email or document. For several paragraphs, clean and copy them one at a time so you keep the breaks between them.
Why invisible characters matter
Control characters can break things silently: a form rejects a pasted value, a spreadsheet formula does not match, or a CSV import goes wrong. Removing them is safe for normal text. Everyday characters such as accented letters, emoji and non-Latin scripts are not touched.
Cleaning a list? After cleaning, run it through Remove Duplicate Lines. Trimming spaces first means lines that differ only by a trailing space are correctly treated as duplicates.