Text Cleaner

Written byOleh Soloninupdated 25 September 2026

Text

Collapse multiple spaces

Remove empty lines

Trim line edges

Result

ResultSample text with extra spaces
Characters removed10
Lines2

Fixing the mess that copy-paste leaves behind

Clean up text pasted from PDFs, emails or web pages: collapse repeated spaces, remove blank lines and trim ragged edges.

Copying out of a PDF or an email chain brings invisible passengers: double spaces, trailing whitespace, blank lines every second row. It all looks fine until it lands in a CMS.

Each cleanup is a separate switch, so you can collapse spaces while keeping paragraph breaks, or strip blank lines while leaving indentation alone.

How to use

Paste text copied out of a PDF, an email or a web page.
Leave on the clean-ups you want: collapse spaces, remove empty lines, trim line edges.
Copy the cleaned text; next to it you see how many characters went and how many lines are left.

What each switch does

The sample: 'Первая строка ', two blank lines, ' Вторая⇥строка⇥⇥with tabs', one blank line, ' Третья' — 55 characters, where ⇥ marks a tab.

Every row is output from this page's cleaner.
Collapse spaces	Remove empty lines	Trim edges	Characters removed	Lines
on	on	on	11	3
on	off	on	8	6
off	off	on	5	6
on	off	off	5	6
off	on	off	3	3

What this calculator shows

The cleaned text, ready to paste onward
How many characters were removed
Independent toggles for spaces, empty lines and edge trimming

What to keep in mind

Collapsing spaces affects runs of two or more, so single spacing is untouched.
Line breaks are preserved unless you explicitly remove empty lines.

FAQs

Why does text from PDFs have so many double spaces?

PDFs store glyph positions, not words. Extracting text guesses where spaces belong, and it often guesses twice.

Will it remove my paragraph breaks?

Only if you switch on empty-line removal. Leave it off and paragraphs survive while other whitespace is tidied.

Does it handle non-breaking spaces?

Runs of ordinary spaces and tabs are collapsed. A stray non-breaking space pasted from a web page can survive, since it is a different character entirely.

Is trailing whitespace really a problem?

In prose, rarely. In CSV and YAML they can be part of a value, so do not strip them blindly from working files; and in Markdown two trailing spaces silently become a line break.

Are tabs collapsed too?

Yes, whenever two or more spaces or tabs sit together in any mix: they become a single space. A lone tab is left alone.

What counts as an empty line?

A line with no characters at all. With edge trimming on, a line of nothing but spaces becomes empty too; with it off, that line stays.

Worked example

A paragraph out of a PDF

Input: a b, then three blank lines, then ' c '

Output: a b\nc

Note: Triple space collapsed, blank lines dropped, trailing spaces trimmed — the state a CMS expects.

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Result

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