Remove Extra Spaces
Tidy up messy text in one step. Remove Extra Spaces collapses repeated spaces, trims the start and end of each line and reduces runs of blank lines — while leaving your words and punctuation exactly as they are.
Processed in your browser as you type. Your text is never uploaded or stored.
What Gets Cleaned Up
Punctuation, line breaks between paragraphs and the words themselves are never changed, so the cleaned text reads exactly as before — just without the stray whitespace.
- Two or more spaces in a row become a single space.
- Tabs and non-breaking spaces are replaced with a normal space.
- Spaces at the start and end of each line are removed (optional).
- Several blank lines in a row are reduced to one blank line, or removed entirely (optional).
Example
- 1Before: “Quick tools. Instant results. ”
- 2After: “Quick tools. Instant results.”
Therefore: Eight unnecessary spaces removed; the sentence is unchanged.
When Is Removing Extra Spaces Useful?
- Text copied from PDFs
- Cleaning up emails
- Preparing data for import
- Tidying code comments and strings
- Formatting articles
- Polishing documents
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Words stay separated by a single space. Only the extra spaces are removed.
No. Full stops, commas and all other punctuation are left exactly where they are.
Yes. By default a single blank line between paragraphs is kept and only additional blank lines are removed. You can also choose to remove all blank lines.
PDFs store text positions rather than flowing text, so copying often adds spaces, tabs and line breaks where the layout had columns or justified text.