Remove Extra Spaces: Clean Up Messy Text

Copy text out of a PDF, an email, or a badly formatted document and you often get a mess: double and triple spaces between words, random tabs, and gaps of blank lines. This tool collapses every run of spaces and tabs down to a single space, tidies the start and end of each line, and can strip out empty lines, all in your browser. Paste in the ragged version, copy out the clean one.

What this tool cleans up

It targets three common problems. First, multiple spaces or tabs sitting between words, which it collapses to one space each. Second, trailing and leading spaces on a line, the invisible padding that breaks alignment and shows up when you paste into code or a spreadsheet. Third, blank lines, which you can remove entirely if you want tightly packed text.

It deliberately leaves single line breaks alone by default, so your paragraphs stay as paragraphs. If you want to flatten line breaks too, a dedicated line break remover is the better tool for that job.

Why extra spaces cause problems

Beyond looking untidy, stray whitespace causes real bugs. It throws off word counts, breaks exact-match lookups in spreadsheets, pushes text out of alignment in code, and can inflate the character count of a meta description or ad so it gets truncated. Cleaning it once at the source saves you chasing the symptoms later.

Private and instant

The whole thing runs on your device with plain JavaScript. Your text is never sent anywhere, so you can safely clean up confidential documents, draft copy, or client data. There is no upload step and no waiting.

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