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Text Cleaner

Messy text? Fix it instantly. Remove formatting, line breaks, and clutter.

Cleaning Options

Original Text
Cleaned Result

Clean up text pasted from PDFs, emails and web pages

Text copied out of a PDF, an email client or a web page rarely arrives clean. It comes with hard line breaks in the middle of sentences, double spaces, stray HTML, tracking URLs and invisible characters that break search and formatting downstream.

Tick the options you need, paste the text, and get it back usable. Everything runs in your browser.

What each option removes

  • Extra spaces — collapses runs of spaces into one. Common after find-and-replace, or after stripping words out of a sentence.
  • Line breaks — joins hard-wrapped lines back into flowing paragraphs. This is the fix for PDF copy-paste, where every visual line ends with a real newline.
  • Empty lines — removes blank lines between paragraphs while keeping the paragraphs themselves.
  • HTML tags — strips markup that came along with a copy from a rendered web page.
  • URLs and emails — removes links and addresses, useful when preparing text for analysis or word count.

Why PDF text pastes so badly

A PDF stores glyphs at coordinates, not sentences. There is often no paragraph structure in the file at all — what looks like a paragraph is a stack of separately positioned lines. When you copy, the viewer reconstructs reading order and inserts a line break at the end of each visual line, which is why a pasted paragraph arrives pre-broken.

Removing line breaks reassembles it. Watch for hyphenated words split across lines, which come through as "inter- national" and need a manual pass.

The characters you cannot see

Text from the web frequently carries non-breaking spaces, zero-width joiners and soft hyphens. They are invisible on screen but they are real characters: they break exact-match search, throw off character counts, and can stop a database lookup from matching.

If a string looks identical to another but refuses to match, an invisible character is usually why. Running both through a cleaner first is the quickest way to confirm it.

Frequently asked questions

No. All processing is client-side JavaScript. Nothing you paste is transmitted or stored.
Only if you ask it to. "Remove line breaks" joins everything into continuous text; "Remove empty lines" keeps paragraphs but closes the gaps between them.
There is no undo inside the tool, but your original is still on your clipboard or in its source document. Keep a copy before running an aggressive combination of options.
Not here. Use the em dash remover for dash conversion — it handles em dashes, en dashes and double hyphens specifically.