Remove Extra Spaces
Paste messy text and get a clean version instantly. Choose exactly what to remove.
Paste text to clean it.
How to use the remove extra spaces
- Paste your text into the left box, or open a .txt file.
- Keep the default options for a general clean-up, or tick extra ones such as Remove line breaks.
- The cleaned version appears on the right straight away, with a note about how many characters were removed.
- Press Copy or download the result as a .txt file.
About this tool
Text copied from websites, PDFs, emails or chat apps often arrives with double spaces, stray tabs, empty lines and invisible characters. They make documents look uneven and can break forms, spreadsheets and code.
This tool fixes the most common problems. It can also join broken lines into a single paragraph, which helps with text copied from PDFs where every line ends with a hard return. Non-breaking and zero-width spaces, which look like normal spaces or like nothing at all, are replaced or removed so they cannot cause hidden trouble.
Frequently asked questions
Will it change my words?
No. It only changes spaces, tabs, line breaks and invisible characters. Your letters, numbers and punctuation stay as they are.
What are non-breaking and zero-width spaces?
They are special characters that look like a space or are invisible. They often arrive when you copy text from web pages or documents. This tool turns non-breaking spaces into normal spaces and removes zero-width characters.
How do I join lines from a PDF into one paragraph?
Tick Remove line breaks. Every line break is replaced with a single space, giving you one continuous block of text.
Why is Remove space before punctuation off by default?
Some languages, such as French, put a space before certain punctuation marks on purpose. You can switch it on for English text.