Text Cleaner
Remove extra spaces, blank lines, duplicates and stray characters from pasted text.
58 characters before, 28 after.
Text copied from PDFs, emails and web pages often arrives with double spaces, ragged line breaks and invisible characters. Tick the clean-up steps you need and the result appears as you go.
It can also sort lines, remove duplicate lines and strip HTML tags. Everything runs in your browser.
How text cleaner works
Steps are applied in a fixed order: invisible characters and curly quotes first, then HTML tags, line-level trimming, duplicate and blank-line removal, sorting and finally joining lines. Turn options on and off to see their effect on the result and the character count.
The HTML remover strips tags so the text can be read. It is not a security sanitiser and must not be used to make untrusted markup safe.
Worked example: a messy paste
Input: three lines with double spaces, one blank line between them and one repeated line.
With “collapse spaces”, “remove blank lines” and “remove duplicates” on, you get two clean unique lines.
When to use this tool
- Fixing text copied from a PDF where every line ends in a hard break.
- Removing duplicates from a pasted list of names, emails or keywords.
- Stripping tags from a snippet of HTML to read the text.
- Putting a list in alphabetical order.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Removing line breaks from a list and losing the separators between items.
- Removing duplicates when capitalisation differs. Duplicates are matched exactly unless you choose to ignore case.
- Relying on the HTML remover for security.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I remove extra spaces from text?
- Turn on “collapse repeated spaces” and “trim lines”. Multiple spaces become one, and spaces at the start and end of each line are removed.
- How do I remove line breaks?
- Turn on “join lines into one paragraph” to replace line breaks with single spaces.
- Can it remove duplicate lines?
- Yes. Turn on “remove duplicate lines”. You can choose whether capitalisation counts.
- Is my text sent to a server?
- No. All cleaning happens in your browser.
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Results are for information only and are not financial, legal or medical advice. The calculation logic is covered by automated tests, and examples on this page are worked out and re-checked before publishing. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.