Remove Extra Spaces: Cleaning Up Whitespace in Pasted Text
Text copied from PDFs, web pages, or OCR often has irregular spacing β multiple spaces between words, tabs mixed with spaces, leading/trailing whitespace on every line. This tool normalizes all of it.
Whitespace cleanup is a tiny but constantly-needed task. Word processors deal with this poorly because their 'find and replace' takes multiple passes. A dedicated tool does it in one click.
Cleanup operations available
- β’Collapse multiple spaces into one
- β’Convert tabs to spaces (or vice versa)
- β’Remove leading/trailing whitespace on each line
- β’Remove all blank lines
- β’Remove non-breaking spaces (the invisible that copy-paste introduces)
Extended FAQ
What's a non-breaking space and why does it matter?
(Unicode 00A0) looks identical to a regular space but doesn't allow line breaks at that position. Some web pages and PDFs use them. They cause search-and-replace failures because they don't match a normal space character.
Are my pasted strings stored?
No β runs entirely in your browser.