Remove Extra Spaces
Collapse repeated spaces, trim stray whitespace, and remove blank lines from your text instantly.
Collapse repeated spaces, trim stray whitespace, and remove blank lines from your text instantly.
Extra whitespace is any redundant space, tab, or blank line that creeps into text without adding meaning — double spaces between words, trailing spaces at the end of a line, indentation left over from a table, or several empty lines stacked in a row.
It shows up most often when text is copied from somewhere else: pasting from a PDF or scanned document (OCR) often inserts stray spaces and broken line breaks, copying from Microsoft Word or Google Docs can bring along tab-based indentation and non-breaking spaces, and copying from a web page can carry over the raw spacing used in the HTML source. Left in place, this whitespace makes text look inconsistent and can break formatting when the text is pasted into a CMS, markdown file, spreadsheet, or code editor.
A Remove Extra Spaces tool cleans up messy text by collapsing repeated spaces into a single space, trimming leading and trailing whitespace from each line, and/or deleting blank lines — without touching the actual words in your content.
This tool offers three distinct cleanup modes so you can choose exactly how aggressive the cleanup is: fully normalize the text (trim, collapse spaces, and drop blank lines), collapse spaces while keeping every line and paragraph break intact, or only strip out empty lines while leaving spacing untouched. Clicking a mode replaces the text right in the same box, a "Reset to Original" button brings back exactly what was there before, and a preview icon on each mode lets you see its result first without committing to it.
Paste or type your text into the input box, or click "Upload File" to load a .txt or .md file from your computer.
Click the eye icon next to any mode in the "Removal Options" panel to see what it would produce, without changing your text yet.
Click "Remove All" to fully normalize the text, "Single Spaces" to collapse repeated spaces while keeping every line, or "Remove Blank Lines" to only delete empty lines — the box updates in place with the result.
Review the Statistics section to see how many characters and lines were removed compared to the original.
Click "Reset to Original" to bring back the text exactly as it was before the mode was applied, and try a different mode.
Click "Copy Text" to copy the current result to your clipboard, or use "Download" in the sidebar to save it as a .txt file.
"Remove All" deletes every blank line, so multi-paragraph text collapses into one continuous block of lines with no visual separation between paragraphs. If you need to keep paragraph breaks, use "Single Spaces" instead — it collapses repeated spaces on each line but leaves blank lines in place.
Both "Remove All" and "Single Spaces" treat tabs the same as regular spaces when collapsing whitespace. This is usually what you want for prose, but it will destroy tab-based indentation in code snippets or tab-separated (TSV) data — avoid running those through this tool.
This mode only deletes empty lines; it does not touch leading/trailing spaces or repeated spaces inside a line. If your text has both extra blank lines and extra spaces, you'll want "Remove All" instead, or run "Remove Blank Lines" and then a spacing cleanup pass.
Text copied from a PDF often has a line break inserted at the end of every visually wrapped line. Since this tool cleans whitespace within and around each line rather than merging lines together, a sentence that was wrapped across three lines in the PDF will still be split across three lines after cleanup.
The file upload only accepts .txt and .md files. Word documents (.docx) and PDFs need to be opened and copied as plain text first — uploading them directly is not supported.
Leading/trailing spaces, doubled internal spaces, and blank lines are all removed.
Input
Hello world! This is a test. Done.
Output
Hello world! This is a test. Done.
Spacing is cleaned up on each line, but blank lines between paragraphs are preserved.
Input
First paragraph line. Second paragraph.
Output
First paragraph line. Second paragraph.
Only empty lines are deleted; spacing within each remaining line is left exactly as-is.
Input
Line one. Line two. Line three.
Output
Line one. Line two. Line three.
Use "Remove All" for a fully clean, single-spaced result with no blank lines — good for one-off snippets. Use "Single Spaces" when you want to fix spacing but keep your paragraph structure intact. Use "Remove Blank Lines" when your spacing is already fine and you only want to get rid of empty lines.
Yes. In "Remove All" and "Single Spaces" modes, tabs are treated the same as regular spaces and collapsed along with them. "Remove Blank Lines" mode does not touch tabs or spaces at all — it only removes empty lines.
No. All cleanup happens locally in your browser. Your text is never sent to a server, so it's safe to paste sensitive or private content.
You can upload .txt or .md files. For Word documents or PDFs, open the file and copy the text as plain text into the input box instead.
A line is considered blank if it contains nothing, or only whitespace (spaces or tabs), after trimming. Lines with any visible character are always kept.
Yes — click "Reset to Original" to restore the text exactly as it was before the applied mode. This works until you either apply a different mode (which always transforms from the same pre-clean baseline) or manually edit the text yourself, at which point the current text becomes the new baseline.
No, it only affects whitespace — spaces, tabs, and blank lines. The words, punctuation, and casing of your text are never altered.