Whitespace Remover — Delete Extra Spaces and Blank Lines
Paste messy text and get a clean copy back. The tool collapses repeated spaces, trims every line, drops or merges blank lines, and clears out non-breaking spaces and zero-width characters that survive a copy-paste from Word or a PDF. Live before/after counts show exactly how much was stripped.
How it works
- 1 Paste your text Drop the text into the left box. Cleaning runs as you type, so there is no button to press and nothing to wait for.
- 2 Pick the rules Toggle the checkboxes: collapse repeated spaces, trim each line, remove or merge blank lines, convert tabs, or strip every whitespace character at once.
- 3 Copy the result The cleaned text appears on the right along with the character, word, and line counts before and after. Copy it to the clipboard or download it as a .txt file.
Your data stays private
All processing happens entirely in your browser. No files, text, or data are ever sent to our servers. You can disconnect from the internet and this tool will still work.
Frequently asked questions
- What counts as whitespace?
- Regular spaces, tab characters, and line breaks. This tool also handles the invisible lookalikes: non-breaking spaces (U+00A0), en and em spaces, the ideographic space used in Japanese text, zero-width joiners, and byte-order marks.
- Why does my text have spaces I cannot see?
- Copying from Word, Google Docs, or a PDF often brings along non-breaking spaces instead of regular ones. They look identical but break search, sorting, and CSV parsing. Leave the Unicode normalisation option on and they get converted to plain spaces.
- Does it keep my paragraphs?
- Yes, by default. Single line breaks stay untouched and runs of blank lines collapse to one, so paragraph structure survives. Turn on Remove empty lines if you want everything packed together with no gaps.
- Can I remove every space in the text?
- Yes. Switch on Remove all whitespace and the result is one unbroken string with no spaces, tabs, or line breaks. That setting overrides the other rules, which grey out while it is active.
- Is there a size limit?
- No hard limit is enforced. Processing happens in your browser, so very large documents (a few megabytes and up) depend on your device's memory rather than any server quota.
- Is my text sent anywhere?
- No. Everything runs in JavaScript inside this page. Your text never reaches a server, which makes it safe for contracts, medical notes, and anything else you would rather not paste into a cloud service.