Remove Extra Spaces

This tool removes extra spaces from text, including multiple spaces between words, unnecessary blank lines, and leading/trailing spaces. It’s useful for cleaning up formatted content, pasted data, or text pulled from inconsistent sources.

Paste your input above or import a file below.
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Supported file types: .txt, .csv, .tsv, .log, .json, .xml, .md, .ini, .yaml, .yml, .html, .htm, .css
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Options
Trim lines
Remove blank lines
Maximize output

How to Use:

  • Paste or type your content into the Input Text box.
  • To import a file, click Choose File and select a supported format (.txt, .csv, .json, etc.).
  • Use the toggles in the Options box:
    • Trim lines: Removes leading and trailing whitespace from each line.
    • Remove blank lines: Deletes empty lines completely.
    • Maximize output: Expands the output box height for easier viewing.
  • Choose the line ending format you want under Line Ending:
    • Unix (LF): Use \n line endings (default on macOS/Linux).
    • Windows (CRLF): Use \r\n line endings.
    • Classic Mac (CR): Use \r endings.
  • The Cleaned Output updates instantly with every change.
  • Below the output, view the Total lines counter updating live.
  • Click Copy Output to copy the cleaned text to clipboard.
  • Use Export to File to download the cleaned version as a .txt.
  • Hit Clear All to reset everything, including toggles and counter.

What Clean Text can do:

The Clean Text tool helps you quickly tidy up poorly formatted content. Whether it’s text from emails, code snippets, data exports, or copied documents, it strips extra whitespace, flattens tabs and spacing, and removes empty lines without affecting your actual content. You can also force all line endings to a standard format super helpful when moving between Windows and Unix-based systems or importing into software that expects a specific newline style. Combine Trim Lines with Remove Blank Lines for a tight cleanup, or normalize everything for consistent formatting across files.

Example:

Input:

This    is   a    line with   too many  
spaces.

   And this line  has    leading and trailing   
spaces.

Another    one. With     tabs.

Options:

  • Trim lines: enabled
  • Remove blank lines: disabled

Output:

This is a line with too many spaces.

And this line has leading and trailing spaces.

Another one. With tabs.

Common Use Cases:

The Clean Text Tool removes extra spaces, trims lines, and deletes blank lines to prepare clean, organized text. It’s ideal for cleaning up data before imports, formatting content for publishing, fixing messy text from OCR or copy-paste operations, preparing logs or scripts for analysis, and ensuring text files meet clean formatting standards.

Useful Tools & Suggestions:

After clearing extra spaces, Normalize Text Spacing fine-tunes the rest perfect for fixing tabs, irregular gaps, or mixed spacing. And if you’re prepping for layout or export, Justify Text keeps everything aligned and readable without needing to tweak each line manually.

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