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Text copied from PDFs, emails, or other documents often carries inconsistent spacing — extra spaces, tabs, and stray blank lines that make it look unpolished once pasted elsewhere.
This tool offers three cleanup modes: trimming lines and collapsing excess blank lines, collapsing runs of spaces and tabs into one space, or removing all whitespace entirely.
How it works
Paste your text and choose a cleanup mode. "Trim lines" removes leading and trailing spaces from each line and collapses long runs of blank lines. "Collapse spaces" reduces multiple spaces or tabs to one. "Remove all" strips every whitespace character.
- Enter text.
- Enter cleanup mode.
- Click Calculate to see your results.
Examples
Cleaning up copy-pasted text
Text with lines like " hello " and several blank lines in a row becomes neatly trimmed with single blank-line separators.
Who should use it
- Cleaning up text copy-pasted from a PDF, email, or word processor.
- Compacting a string by removing all whitespace before using it as an identifier.
Industry applications
- Content editing and publishing
- Data cleanup and preparation
Advantages
- Three distinct modes cover light cleanup through total whitespace removal.
- Reports exactly how many characters were removed.
Limitations
- "Remove all" mode is destructive to readability and only useful for specific narrow cases.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Using "remove all" on prose text, which destroys readability by eliminating every space.
- Not realizing "trim lines" preserves single blank lines between paragraphs by design (only 2+ consecutive blank lines get collapsed).
Best practices
- Start with "trim lines" for general text cleanup — it's the mode least likely to alter meaning while still removing genuine formatting mess.
Tips
- If you're not sure which mode you need, try "trim lines" first — it's the least destructive option and handles the most common copy-paste mess.