✂️ Remove Extra Spaces

The Remove Extra Spaces tool collapses every run of consecutive spaces down to a single space, strips leading and trailing whitespace from each line, and removes blank lines. It's the fastest way to clean up text that was pasted from a PDF, a word processor with double-spaces after periods, an OCR output, or a translator that padded every field. Everything runs in your browser.

How to Use This Tool

Paste your text and press the Clean button. The tool trims each line, collapses runs of internal whitespace to a single space, and removes any line that ends up empty. The cleaned text appears in the output area; copy it back to wherever it came from.

SEO Best Practices

Run this over meta descriptions, alt text, and product descriptions before publishing — double-spaces from word processors are a very common source of ugly output that never gets caught by human proofreading. For code, prefer your editor's built-in formatter (Prettier, Black, gofmt) instead — a general whitespace collapser will break languages where indentation matters, like Python or YAML.

Example

Text with several double-spaces after periods, tabs mixed into indentation, and three blank lines between paragraphs comes back as clean single-spaced sentences separated by a single line break — ready to paste into a CMS that renders whitespace strictly.

Common Mistakes to Avoid

Don't run this over code you care about — indentation is meaningful in many languages, and blank lines often separate logical sections. Don't use it on poetry, song lyrics, or ASCII art where the exact spacing is intentional.