Text Cleaner and Line Break Remover

How to clean text online

1. Paste or import your text (TXT, Markdown, CSV, JSON, HTML or XML, under 5 MB).

2. Choose a Recipe that matches where the text came from: Quick clean, Copied PDF, Web paste, List cleanup or Email thread. Each recipe turns on the steps that suit that source.

3. Check the Changes tab. It shows every word that will be removed or added, and a warning appears if any step could change the structure of your text.

4. Press Apply cleanup, then copy or download the result. Restore original is there if you change your mind.

Remove extra spaces and line breaks

“Collapse repeated spaces” turns double and triple spaces into one. “Trim both ends of lines” removes spaces before and after each line, and “Remove trailing spaces” only removes the ones at the end, which keeps indentation in code and poetry intact.

For line breaks, “Limit blank lines” squeezes big gaps down to one or two empty lines, and “Remove all blank lines” takes them out completely. “Unwrap copied lines” is the one people are usually looking for: it joins lines that were broken in the middle of a sentence, but keeps a blank line between paragraphs, so you don't end up with one enormous block of text.

How to fix text copied from a PDF

When you copy from a PDF, every line on the page usually arrives as its own line, and words that were hyphenated at the end of a line arrive split in two, like inter- on one line and national on the next. The Copied PDF recipe handles both. It rejoins words hyphenated across lines (only when the next line starts with a lowercase letter, so check compound words like well-known in the Changes tab), unwraps the lines inside each paragraph, keeps the paragraph breaks, and tidies the spacing.

Find and remove hidden characters

Some characters take up no space on screen but still sit in your text. They slip in when you copy from web pages, Word documents, chat apps and AI tools, and they break search, sorting, spreadsheet formulas and code. The summary above the output counts these “Invisible marks” before and after cleaning, so you can see whether your text had any.

Strip HTML tags, remove duplicate lines and more

Convert HTML to plain text

Removes tags, scripts and styles, turns list items into bullets and table cells into tabs, and decodes entities like & and  .

Remove duplicate lines globally

Keeps the first copy of every line. Matching ignores case and edge spaces by default; switch to “Match case exactly” if Apple and apple are different items.

Remove bullets and numbering

Strips -, •, 1., a) and checkbox markers from the start of lines.

Remove email quote markers

Deletes the > characters that email clients add to quoted replies.

Use straight quotes

Turns curly quotes into straight ones, which code, CSV files and some forms need.

Normalize Unicode to NFC or NFKC

NFC merges different encodings of the same accented letter and is safe for almost all text. NFKC also flattens full-width, circled and superscript characters, which can change meaning, so it's marked “Review first”.

Why the order of cleaning steps matters

Cleaning steps affect each other. Unwrap lines before removing duplicates, for example, and there may be no separate lines left to compare. The Order tab lists the steps in the order they run and lets you move any step earlier or later. Find and replace always runs last.

The Audit tab then shows what each step did: how many characters and lines it changed, or that it changed nothing. Export it as a CSV or JSON file if you need a record of how a dataset was cleaned.

• Case ConverterFix capitalisation after cleaning
• Alphabetize ListSort a cleaned list A to Z
• Compare TextCheck two versions side by side