Text Cleaner

Free Text Cleaner — Remove Extra Spaces, Blank Lines and Line Breaks

Text copied from PDFs, emails, websites and chat apps is often full of double spaces, stray line breaks, empty lines and hidden formatting. This text cleaner fixes all of it with a few tick boxes: trim each line, collapse repeated spaces, remove empty lines, join everything into a single line, strip HTML tags, convert smart quotes to plain ones and more.

The output updates live as you toggle options, and you can copy it or download it as a text file. It is ideal for cleaning data before import, preparing copy for a CMS, fixing text from PDFs and getting emails ready to paste elsewhere — all without leaving your browser.

Key features

How to use it

1. Paste your messy text.
2. Tick the cleaning options you need.
3. Check the live result and the before/after counts.
4. Copy or download the cleaned text.

Worked example

Example

Input:   "  hello    world  \n\n\n  foo  "
Options: trim lines + collapse spaces + remove empty lines
Output:  "hello world\nfoo"

Who uses this tool

Tips for the best results

• Use “join lines” for text copied from PDFs with hard line breaks.
• Remove empty lines before sorting or de-duplicating a list.
• Strip HTML tags when pasting from a web page editor.
• Keep the original in another tab in case you over-clean.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Removing all line breaks from text where paragraphs matter.
• Stripping tags from code you meant to keep.
• Forgetting to re-check special characters after converting quotes.

Frequently asked questions