Text Cleaner

Written byOleh Soloninupdated 10 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.

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 whitespace 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 code, YAML and CSV it breaks things, and in Markdown two trailing spaces silently become a line break.

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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