UlvixorRemove Extra Spaces and Blank Lines
Clean up your text by removing double spaces, leading and trailing spaces on each line, and optionally collapsing multiple consecutive blank lines into one. Perfect for tidying text copied from PDFs, emails, or documents.
How it works
- Paste the text you want to clean into the input panel.
- The tool goes through each line, trims extra spaces at the start and end, and collapses consecutive spaces and tabs into a single space.
- If you enable the corresponding option, repeated blank lines are reduced to a single blank line.
- Check the counter for removed spaces and lines, then copy or download the cleaned result.
Use cases
- Clean up text copied from a PDF or web page that has irregular spacing and line breaks.
- Prepare content for publishing on a CMS or social network without unwanted visual spacing.
- Normalize plain-text lists or tables before importing them into a spreadsheet.
- Give an email or document consistent formatting before sending or sharing it.
Use cases
- Clean up text copied from a PDF or web page that has irregular spacing and line breaks.
- Prepare content for publishing on a CMS or social network without unwanted visual spacing.
- Normalize plain-text lists or tables before importing them into a spreadsheet.
- Give an email or document consistent formatting before sending or sharing it.
Common mistakes
- Using manual find-and-replace in an editor to remove double spaces, while missing the leading/trailing spaces on each line.This tool cleans up both cases at once — double spaces and edge spaces on each line — in a single pass.
- Pasting text from a PDF with several blank lines between paragraphs and not enabling the collapse option.Turn on 'Collapse repeated blank lines' to reduce those consecutive empty lines to just one and make the text more compact.
- Expecting the tool to also merge lines into a single continuous paragraph.The tool doesn't merge lines; it only trims extra spaces and, optionally, collapses blank lines. If you need to join the text into a paragraph, that step has to be done separately.
Frequently asked questions
It doesn't remove line breaks themselves, but if you enable 'Collapse repeated blank lines,' it reduces several consecutive empty lines to just one, keeping the text's overall structure intact.
Tabs are treated the same as spaces: if there are multiple tabs, or a mix of spaces and tabs in a row, they get collapsed into a single space.
The length of each original line is compared to the length of the cleaned line (without extra leading/trailing spaces or double spaces), and the character difference is summed across all lines.
No. All processing happens in your browser using JavaScript. The text is never sent to an external server.
Alternatives
In a text editor you can use find-and-replace with a regular expression (for example, multiple spaces down to one) to achieve something similar, and the trim() function in most programming languages cleans up a string's edges. This tool solves both cases, double spaces and edges, at once, without writing a regex or opening a code editor.