Remove Extra Spaces
Remove extra whitespace, tabs and blank lines from text
Remove Extra Spaces cleans up messy whitespace line by line — collapsing any run of spaces or tabs down to a single space, trimming leading and trailing whitespace from each line, and removing blank lines entirely.
How to use Remove Extra Spaces
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Paste your text.
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Click "Clean" to process it.
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Review the cleaned-up result with normalized spacing.
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Copy the result.
Everything you need to know about cleaning up whitespace
What does this do?
Strips extra spaces, tabs, and blank lines from text — common after copying content from a PDF or another application, which often introduces inconsistent whitespace that's tedious to clean up by hand.
When you actually need this
- Cleaning text copied from a PDF, which often adds irregular spacing.
- Tidying up code or data before importing it somewhere that's sensitive to extra whitespace.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does this remove blank lines too, or just extra spaces within a line?
Both — every line with repeated spaces or tabs gets collapsed to single spaces and trimmed, and any line that ends up empty is dropped from the output entirely.
Will this affect line breaks I want to keep?
Line breaks between non-empty lines are preserved — only the whitespace within each line and fully blank lines are affected.
What's a common reason to need this?
Text copied from a PDF, email, or formatted document often carries inconsistent spacing and stray blank lines; this normalizes it before you paste it somewhere that expects clean text.
Does this tool send my text to a server?
Yes — it's sent to our servers to clean up and the result is returned to you; nothing is stored.
Is this tool free to use?
Yes — completely free, with no signup and no usage limits for casual use.