Remove extra spaces
Clean up messy whitespace: double spaces, stray tabs and unwanted line breaks.
How to use
- Paste the messy text into the input box.
- Choose Extra spaces for normal clean-up, Remove all to strip every space, or Remove line breaks to unwrap a paragraph.
- Copy the cleaned text from the result pane.
Frequently asked questions
Which mode fixes text copied from a PDF?
Usually Remove line breaks: PDF columns hard-wrap sentences, and this mode joins them back into flowing text. Follow up with Extra spaces if doubled spaces remain.
Does Extra spaces affect my line breaks?
No. It only collapses spaces and tabs within each line; the line structure is preserved.
Are tabs handled too?
Yes. Tabs are treated like spaces in every mode.
About this tool
Text copied from PDFs, websites and chat apps often arrives with doubled spaces, tab characters and line breaks in the middle of sentences. Fixing that by hand is tedious. The Extra spaces mode collapses every run of spaces and tabs into a single space and trims the ends of each line, which is usually all a messy paste needs. Remove all goes further and strips every space — useful for compacting codes or identifiers. Remove line breaks joins a hard-wrapped paragraph back into one continuous line, the classic fix for text copied out of a PDF column.