Text Cleaner
Tidy messy text - remove extra spaces, breaks and duplicate lines.
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Clean up messy, pasted text in one click. Remove extra spaces, strip blank lines, collapse line breaks, delete duplicate lines and trim whitespace - perfect for tidying content copied from PDFs, emails or spreadsheets. All cleaning happens in your browser.
The mess that comes with pasted text
Text copied out of a PDF, an email, a chat log or a web page almost never arrives clean. PDFs insert line breaks wherever the original column ended, so sentences arrive chopped into fragments. Web pages bring double spaces and non-breaking characters that look identical to normal spaces and behave differently. Fixing all of that by hand is exactly the kind of tedium worth automating.
What actually needs removing
- Multiple spaces collapsed down to one.
- Line breaks in the middle of sentences, the classic PDF problem.
- Blank lines stacked up between paragraphs.
- Leading and trailing whitespace on every line.
- Duplicate lines, which matters most for lists and exported data.
The invisible characters
The worst offenders are the ones you cannot see. A non-breaking space looks exactly like a space and is a different character, so a search will not find it and a comparison will fail. Zero width characters carry no width at all and still break string matching. Smart quotes copied from a word processor are different characters from straight quotes, which is a well known way to break code that was pasted from a document.
How to use Text Cleaner
- 1
Paste your messy text.
- 2
Choose which cleaning options to apply.
- 3
Copy the cleaned text.
Frequently asked questions
Extra spaces, blank lines, line breaks, duplicate lines and leading/trailing whitespace.