Whitespace Remover
Paste text copied from PDFs, emails, or formatted documents to instantly clean up extra spaces, tabs, and excessive blank lines. The tool trims leading and trailing whitespace from each line, collapses multiple spaces into one, and reduces triple-or-more blank lines to a single paragraph break. Your original prose remains intact.
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[2 suggestions]About the Whitespace Remover
The Whitespace Remover applies three cleaning passes to your text. First, it trims leading and trailing spaces and tabs from every individual line, so indented text copied from code editors or emails loses its unwanted padding. Second, it collapses runs of multiple consecutive spaces within each line down to a single space, fixing the double-spacing artifacts that often appear when copying from PDFs or Word documents. Third, it reduces three or more consecutive blank lines to a single blank line (double newline), preserving intentional paragraph breaks while eliminating the excessive vertical whitespace common in email forwards and OCR output. The tool reports exactly how many characters were removed, so you can see the cleanup impact at a glance. This is particularly useful for writers cleaning up manuscript submissions, developers normalizing configuration files, or anyone processing text extracted from scanned documents.
Does this remove all line breaks?▾
No — it preserves standard single paragraph breaks (one blank line between paragraphs). Only triple-or-more consecutive blank lines are collapsed to a double newline.
Will it remove leading and trailing spaces from each line?▾
Yes — spaces and tabs at the very beginning and end of each individual line are trimmed, while internal single spaces between words are preserved.
How many characters does the cleanup typically save?▾
The tool shows you exactly how many characters were trimmed after cleanup, so you can see the difference. Text copied from PDFs or Word docs often has 10–30% extra whitespace.