Remove Extra Spaces from Text Online — Free
Runs 100% in your browser — your files never leave your device.
Text copied out of PDFs, terminals, and badly-formatted emails arrives riddled with double spaces, stray tabs, and ragged line edges. Paste it, and every line comes back trimmed with single spaces — live, as you type, entirely in your browser.
How it works
- 1
Paste your text
The cleanup runs live — no button needed.
- 2
Check the result
Each line is trimmed; runs of spaces and tabs collapse to one space.
- 3
Copy the cleaned text
One click copies the result.
About this tool
What gets cleaned
The tool collapses runs of spaces and tabs into single spaces, trims the invisible whitespace clinging to line edges, and optionally removes empty lines entirely. The words never change — only the invisible padding around them disappears.
Where extra whitespace comes from
PDF copies, spreadsheet exports, formatted emails, and code pasted out of terminals all carry double spaces and stray tabs. The cleanup matters for data processing, for text that flows into designs, and for anyone who has hit space-count limits with invisible culprits.
A clean-up sequence for messy text
Run the whitespace remover first, then remove empty lines for the structural strays, then deduplicate — messy text usually needs all three, in that order, to become machine-readable.
Frequently asked questions
Will my actual words change?
No — only whitespace collapses. The text between the spaces is preserved exactly, character for character.
Can I keep intentional double spaces after sentences?
The collapse removes them — if double spacing after periods is a requirement, review the result and spot-restore, since the tool cannot distinguish intentional doubles from accidents.
Does it remove tabs as well as spaces?
Yes — tabs collapse into single spaces along with space runs, and edge trimming catches whatever clings to line boundaries.