Remove Line Breaks
Paste text with unwanted line breaks — from PDFs, emails or subtitles — and get clean, flowing text back. You can also remove blank lines — or remove empty lines only — without joining anything, or remove extra spaces line by line. Runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Why pasted text is full of broken lines
PDFs, emails and subtitle files store text with a hard line break at the end of every visual line — the break is part of the layout, not the writing. When you copy that text into a document or a CMS, every line ends mid-sentence and reflowing it by hand means deleting hundreds of breaks one by one. This tool does it in one click, entirely in your browser: nothing you paste is uploaded or stored.
Two removal modes: flatten everything, or keep paragraphs
“Remove all line breaks” joins the whole text into one continuous block — right for a single paragraph that got chopped up, a subtitle transcript, or text headed for a form field that hates newlines. “Keep paragraphs” is the smarter default for documents: it treats blank lines as real paragraph boundaries, joins the broken lines inside each paragraph, and keeps the paragraphs separated — so a copied PDF chapter comes out as clean paragraphs, not one wall of text.
Cleaning double spaces and stray tabs
Joining lines often reveals a second problem: doubled spaces, tabs used as makeshift indentation, and spaces before punctuation left behind by the original layout. The “extra spaces” action collapses runs of spaces and tabs into single spaces and trims each line's edges — the cleanup step before pasting into a CMS, a translation tool, or anywhere that treats whitespace literally.
Removing duplicate lines
Log extracts, merged mailing lists and copied spreadsheet columns tend to carry repeated lines. The duplicate-line action keeps the first occurrence of each line and drops the rest — comparison ignores capitalization, so “Monday” and “monday” count as one. Combined with the sorter on the Alphabetize page, this turns a messy multi-source paste into a clean, ordered list.
Undo: every action is reversible one step
Each cleanup rewrites the text in place, which would be nerve-wracking without a way back — so the tool keeps the text as it was before your last action, and the Undo button restores it. Try the aggressive mode first; if it flattened more than you wanted, undo and use “Keep paragraphs” instead. (One level of undo, per action — it's a cleanup tool, not an editor.)
What people clean up most
The common jobs: PDF paragraphs that arrive with a break after every line, hard-wrapped email text, subtitle (.srt) text for quoting, OCR output, and CSV cells copied out of spreadsheets. After cleaning, the “Send to” buttons pass the result straight to the Word Counter for a length check — or download it as a .txt file with the button below the box.
Remove blank lines and extra spaces — what each action does
«Remove blank lines» deletes empty rows and, by default, rows containing only spaces or tabs — every remaining line keeps its exact indentation, trailing spaces and order; nothing is joined. Turn the option off to keep whitespace-only lines untouched and delete only truly empty ones. «Remove extra spaces» collapses runs of spaces and tabs inside each line to a single space and, by default, trims the line edges — it never joins lines, so your paragraphs and rows stay where they are. «Remove line breaks» is the action that joins lines into flowing text.
Why does pasted PDF text have a line break on every line?
PDFs store text as positioned lines, not paragraphs, so copying preserves each visual line ending. "Keep paragraphs" joins those hard-wrapped lines back into flowing text while preserving real paragraph breaks (blank lines).
What's the difference between the two removal modes?
"Remove line breaks" joins everything into one continuous block, replacing every break with a space. "Keep paragraphs" only joins lines within a paragraph — anywhere you had a blank line stays a paragraph break.
Does it also clean up double spaces?
"Remove extra spaces" collapses runs of spaces and tabs into single spaces and trims each line — use it together with either line-break mode for fully clean text.
Is my text stored anywhere?
No. The cleanup runs entirely in your browser with JavaScript — your text is never uploaded, logged, or stored.
What counts as a blank line — and will “Remove extra spaces” join my lines?
By default a line containing only spaces or tabs counts as blank and is removed along with truly empty lines; switch the option off to remove only zero-character lines. «Remove extra spaces» works strictly inside each line — it collapses repeated spaces/tabs to one space but never removes a line break, so rows and paragraphs are preserved.