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Hello, world. This has extra spaces.
Hello, world. This has extra spaces.
Text Cleaner
Trim whitespace, collapse repeated spaces, remove blank lines and normalize line endings.
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About this tool
Text copied from a PDF, a chat app or a legacy system often carries invisible baggage: trailing spaces, doubled-up gaps between words, blank lines left over from formatting, Windows-style line endings mixed with Unix ones. None of it is visible until it breaks something — a CSV column that won't align, a diff that shows every line as changed.
How to use it
- Paste the text and toggle the cleanup steps you want: trimming each line, collapsing repeated spaces, removing blank lines entirely, normalizing line endings to a single style, and stripping stray control characters.
- The result updates live, and the stats line shows how many characters were removed.
Examples
Common problems
- I need to keep intentional blank lines (paragraph breaks) but remove accidental double-blank runs.
- Turn off "Remove empty lines" to preserve single blank lines between paragraphs, and only collapse spaces/trim lines instead.