Fix Text That Broke When You Copied It

Remove line breaks from text copied out of a PDF

The text that is copied from PDF files will be broken down into very short lines. Using the smart mode will join all the lines within each sentence.

It will maintain the original paragraphs and rejoin a word split by the hyphen used at the end of a line. Bulleted and numbered lists keep their own lines, so you can remove line breaks without turning a list into one paragraph.

Remove new lines, empty lines or paragraph breaks

How far do you want to go? Remove every line break and you get one long block, which is also the way to remove paragraph breaks and join lines into a single paragraph.

Collapse blank lines only keeps your layout and just deals with the gaps: use it to remove empty lines, and each pile of blank lines between paragraphs becomes one.

Remove extra spaces and double spaces

Check the “fix double spaces” box and the line break remover will also squish any multiple spaces into a single space, and trim the spaces remaining at the end of each line.

This is the quick way to remove double spaces when text has been copied out of a PDF file. Want to remove spaces from text entirely? This is not the tool for the job: it keeps one space between words and only removes extra spaces.

Remove carriage returns from Windows and email text

All lines from documents that originate from Windows applications or older email clients have carriage returns at the end of the lines, in addition to line breaks.

The program does not differentiate between the two, so you remove carriage returns in one single operation. Hard-wrapped email quotations become regular paragraphs.

A free text cleaner tool that runs in your browser

This remove line breaks tool operates directly on your computer. No information is being uploaded, so your private file can be pasted without any risk, and there is no registration or any limit to use it.

“Use as input” puts the output back in the same box and allows running this clean text tool with another option. A simple text cleaner for essays, notes and emails.

Why not just fix it by hand?

Removing each line break individually is effective when dealing with a small paragraph; however, in the case of a whole page from a PDF file, one would have to do hundreds of keystrokes and would still miss a few hyphens.

With Smart mode, all of this can be done in just one click, and your original paragraph divisions and lists remain intact.

Everyday users of this tool

Students quoting from a PDF reading, researchers moving notes from one app to another, and anybody who has ever pasted an old email into a document and watched it fall apart.

Three fixes that solve most problems

• Everything became one paragraph. You are in Remove every line break mode. Change to Smart: keep paragraphs and clean the text again.
• Lists got joined. Do tick keep bullet lists. Lines that are started by a bullet, dash, or number will then stay on a line of their own.
• A word is still split. Tick rejoin hyphen-split words. It performs this task only at the end of the line, so words such as state-of-the-art remain intact.