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Whitespace Remover & Text Cleaner

Clean pasted text in one pass: collapse multiple spaces, remove tabs, strip blank lines, join broken lines, and trim edges.

Cleaning runs locally — no text is transmitted.

Whitespace Is More Than the Space Key

What looks like an empty gap can be any of: regular space (U+0020), non-breaking space (U+00A0 — the one copy-pasted from websites and PDFs that breaks find-and-replace), tabs (U+0009), and line-ending characters. A trim that only targets the space key is why "cleaned" data still fails exact-match comparisons; this tool treats all of them as whitespace so the result is genuinely clean.

Choosing the Right Mode

  • Trim leading/trailing only: when indentation in code or poetry lines is meaningful.
  • Collapse multiple spaces to one: for display text; do not use inside code blocks or pre-formatted columns.
  • Remove everything: for machine-to-machine data like CSV fields or IDs where no internal spaces are valid.

How the Transformation Works

  1. Paste text copied from a PDF, email, or website that came out with messy spacing.
  2. Enable the cleaning operations you need — each one is independent and shows its effect on the preview.
  3. Combine operations: for example, collapse spaces and remove blank lines to normalize a document.
  4. Copy the cleaned text or download it as a .txt file.
Formula & Technical Standard
Each operation is an independent regex pass: collapse replaces runs of two or more non-newline whitespace with one space, and join replaces single newlines (keeping blank-line paragraph breaks) with a space.

Example Input & Output

Fix text copied from a PDF
Input: Two spaces, tabs, and broken\nlines everywhere
Output: Single-spaced, normalized text
PDF extraction often inserts double spaces and hard line breaks mid-sentence; collapsing them restores readable prose.
Prepare a list for a spreadsheet
Input: Lines with trailing spaces and empty rows
Output: Trimmed lines with no blank rows
Trailing whitespace creates phantom values in CSV imports; trimming prevents that.

Common Questions

Will it remove the line breaks I want to keep?

No — every operation is a separate toggle. Leave "remove line breaks" off if your paragraphs should stay on separate lines.

What counts as whitespace?

Spaces, tabs, and non-breaking spaces are all treated as whitespace when collapsing or trimming.

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Strip duplicate lines from any list or text with optional case-insensitive comparison, whitespace trimming, and sorting.

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Word & Character Counter

Live counts of words, characters (with and without spaces), lines, sentences, and paragraphs, plus an estimated reading time.