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Remove Extra Spaces

Remove extra spaces and whitespace from text.

How to Use Remove Extra Spaces

1

Paste the messy text into the input box, keeping the line breaks you want to preserve.

2

Switch on any optional setting you need, such as removing blank lines or trimming each line individually.

3

Click the "Process" button to collapse the extra whitespace and see the cleaned text in the output panel.

4

Copy the tidy result with one click, or download it as a .txt file ready for your import or document.

Features

100% free with no sign-up and no limit on text length
Collapses repeated spaces and tabs into a single space
Trims leading and trailing whitespace on every line
Optionally strips blank lines for a single clean paragraph
One-click copy plus a .txt download of the cleaned text
Works entirely in your browser, so nothing is uploaded or stored

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, it is free with unlimited use and no account required. There is nothing to buy and no usage cap.
No. Cleaning runs locally in your browser, so your text is never uploaded, logged or saved anywhere.
No, single line breaks within a line are preserved as normal newlines. Only repeated blank lines are removed when you switch that option on, and tabs are collapsed into a single space.
Yes, there is no practical size limit. Large documents and multi-page pastes are cleaned in a single pass.

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About Remove Extra Spaces

Broken spacing is the fingerprint of text that has travelled. Copy from a PDF and you get hard line breaks mid-sentence, single newlines where a paragraph should be, tabs where a space should be, and stray double spaces left behind by justified text. Paste from an email or a word processor and you often pick up four or five invisible spaces that will later break a search, a comparison or a database import.

This tool cleans that up. It collapses runs of spaces and tabs into a single space, trims the leading and trailing whitespace from every line, and can remove blank lines entirely so the result is one tight paragraph. Trailing spaces get stripped too, which sounds trivial until you remember that a trailing space in a CSV file can end up as a visible column or a mismatched value.

There is a second family of problems it solves. Text extracted from a website often carries non-breaking spaces, zero-width characters and soft hyphens that look like nothing on screen but wreck exact-match searches. Cleaning first, then comparing, is the reliable way to find genuine differences between two blocks of text instead of chasing invisible characters. The same applies before you feed content into a form: a form that silently rejects input is very often failing on a space that looks like nothing.

When to Use This Tool

  • Cleaning text copied out of a PDF before editing or reformatting it
  • Normalising whitespace before a CSV import so values match correctly
  • Fixing meta descriptions and page titles that carry stray double spaces
  • Comparing two blocks of text without being tripped up by invisible characters
  • Tidying code, log output and console output that picked up trailing whitespace