Remove Extra Spaces
100% FreeWhitespace cleanup with surgical control — collapse spaces, trim lines, collapse newlines, remove blank lines, or strip ALL whitespace.
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How to Use
- 1 Paste messy text into the input
- 2 Choose which whitespace operations to apply (defaults are sane)
- 3 Output updates instantly with character-removed count
- 4 Copy the cleaned text
Features
- Collapse multiple spaces / tabs into one
- Trim each line's leading + trailing whitespace
- Collapse 3+ consecutive newlines to 2 (preserves paragraph breaks)
- Remove all blank lines
- 'Strip ALL whitespace' nuclear option for one-line output
- Character count + chars-removed surfaced
Why it Matters
Copy-paste from PDFs, Word docs, web pages all leave behind double spaces, line breaks at odd places, non-breaking spaces. A predictable cleanup tool that gives you per-operation control beats a series of regex replacements every time.
Use Cases
Paste from PDF
Strip the random newlines PDF copy-paste leaves behind
Code Cleanup
Normalise whitespace before diffing two snippets
Data Pre-processing
Clean text inputs before pushing to a database
Frequently Asked Questions
Does it touch newlines if I leave 'Collapse newlines' off?
What's the difference between 'Collapse 3+ newlines' and 'Remove blank lines'?
Will it remove non-breaking spaces (U+00A0)?
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