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Remove Extra Spaces

Clean up double spaces, stray tabs and ragged indentation without wrecking your paragraphs.

Runs in your browser — nothing you type is sent anywhere

Line breaks are never treated as ordinary spaces, so your paragraphs stay intact instead of being joined into one block.

Result

The result appears here as you type. Nothing is sent anywhere — the work happens in this page.

About the Remove Extra Spaces

Text copied out of a PDF, an email chain or a web page arrives full of whitespace that is not really there: double spaces between sentences, tabs used for indentation, trailing spaces at the end of every line, and runs of blank lines where a page break used to be.

The obvious fix is to replace every run of whitespace with a single space, and it is wrong. That treats line breaks as whitespace too, so the entire document collapses into one unbroken paragraph. This tool handles horizontal spacing and vertical spacing separately, which is why your paragraphs survive.

Each cleanup is a separate switch, so you can apply only what you need. Collapsing repeated spaces fixes the double-space problem. Trimming lines removes the invisible spaces at the start and end of each one, which is what makes pasted text misalign. Blank lines can either be collapsed to a single break or removed entirely, depending on whether you want paragraphs or a continuous block.

The result updates as you type and shows how many characters of whitespace were removed. Nothing you paste is sent anywhere, so a confidential document is safe to tidy up here.

How to use the Remove Extra Spaces

  1. Paste the messy text

    Anything copied from a PDF, a slide deck or an email usually has the problem. Paste it into the box on the left.

  2. Choose what to clean

    Turn on only the fixes you want: repeated spaces, line trimming, and how blank lines should be treated.

  3. Check the paragraphs survived

    The result appears on the right. Line breaks between paragraphs are preserved unless you specifically ask for blank lines to be removed.

  4. Copy the clean version

    Copy it to your clipboard or download it as a text file, ready to paste wherever it is going.

Frequently asked questions

Will this join all my paragraphs into one block?
No, and that is the main thing it does differently. Horizontal whitespace and line breaks are handled separately, so collapsing repeated spaces never eats a newline. Paragraphs only disappear if you explicitly turn on removing blank lines.
Why does text copied from a PDF have such odd spacing?
A PDF stores the position of every piece of text rather than a flow of words, so extracting it produces whatever spacing approximates the layout — often tabs, repeated spaces and a line break at the end of every visual line rather than every paragraph.
What is the difference between collapsing and removing blank lines?
Collapsing turns any run of blank lines into a single one, keeping your paragraph breaks while removing the gaps. Removing deletes them all, leaving a continuous block of lines with nothing between them.
Does it remove tabs as well as spaces?
Yes. Collapsing repeated spaces treats tabs as horizontal whitespace, so a run of tabs and spaces becomes a single space. This is usually what you want for prose, though it will flatten indentation in code.
Is my text uploaded?
No. The cleaning happens in your browser as you type, so nothing is transmitted or stored anywhere. Documents people tidy up are often unpublished or confidential, which is exactly why this runs locally.

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