Tool
Whitespace Remover
Paste text and strip out extra spaces, blank lines, and leading or trailing whitespace in one click.
Clean text in three steps
No software to install. Works in any browser, on any device.
Paste your text
Drop text with extra spaces, blank lines, or tab characters.
Choose what to remove
Remove extra spaces, blank lines, leading/trailing spaces, or all of them.
Copy the clean text
Click copy to grab the cleaned result.
Before → After
Input
Hello world. This has
extra spaces.
Output
Hello world. This has
extra spaces.
Multiple clean modes
Remove just extra spaces, just blank lines, or everything at once.
Instant preview
See the cleaned text before copying. Undo and adjust if needed.
Copy with one click
One button copies the result straight to your clipboard.
About the Whitespace Remover
Whitespace problems are common when copying text from PDFs, websites, code editors, spreadsheets, or emails. Extra spaces between words, blank lines between paragraphs, and leading or trailing spaces before/after content — all of these can break formatting, cause issues in databases, or just make text look untidy.
This tool gives you five independent operations you can combine:
- Trim edges — removes spaces and newlines at the very start and end of the text
- Collapse spaces — reduces two or more consecutive spaces to a single space
- Remove blank lines — deletes empty lines between paragraphs
- Remove line breaks — joins all lines into a single paragraph
- Remove all spaces — strips every space character (useful for formatting code or data strings)
All processing happens in your browser — no text is sent to any server.
The most common combination is Trim edges + Collapse spaces — this handles text pasted from PDFs, where extra spaces often appear mid-sentence and padding is inserted at the start and end. Remove blank lines is useful for content pasted from websites that insert extra line breaks between paragraphs.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What types of whitespace can it remove?
Extra spaces between words, leading/trailing spaces, blank lines, and tab characters.
Why does pasted text have extra spaces?
Text from PDFs, web pages, or Word often carries formatting artifacts — double spaces, non-breaking spaces, or extra line breaks.
Will removing whitespace affect paragraph structure?
Only if you choose to remove blank lines. Removing extra spaces within lines leaves paragraph structure intact.
What's a non-breaking space?
Unicode 160 — looks like a regular space but prevents line breaks. Common in pasted web content. The tool converts these to regular spaces.