Remove Extra Spaces
Paste text to clean up its whitespace — collapse repeated spaces into one, trim the start and end of each line, and remove blank lines. The result updates live in your browser.
How to remove extra spaces
- Paste your text into the box.
- Choose what to clean: collapse double spaces, trim each line, and/or remove blank lines.
- Copy the cleaned result.
About cleaning whitespace
Text pasted from the web, PDFs or spreadsheets is often littered with double spaces, trailing spaces and empty lines. They’re invisible but cause misaligned layouts, broken parsing and inconsistent formatting. Cleaning whitespace normalises the text in one step.
Collapsing reduces any run of spaces or tabs to a single space; trimming removes leading and trailing whitespace from every line; and blank-line removal drops empty lines entirely. Each is optional, and it all runs in your browser.
Stray whitespace causes real bugs downstream. A trailing space in a spreadsheet cell makes two identical-looking values fail to match in lookups and filters. Extra spaces in email addresses or usernames break sign-ins and mail merges. And in version control, an invisible trailing space shows up as a changed line, cluttering diffs and code reviews with noise. Cleaning text before it enters a system is far cheaper than debugging it afterwards.
One thing to watch: indentation is meaningful in some text. Collapsing flattens the leading spaces and tabs that structure source code, Python especially, and trimming strips them entirely, so for code it is safest to leave both off and use blank-line removal alone. The double space after a full stop is a different case: it is a typewriter-era habit that modern style guides have dropped, so collapsing quietly modernises older documents.
Frequently asked questions
Does it remove tabs as well as spaces?
Yes. Collapsing whitespace reduces runs of spaces and tabs alike to a single space, so mixed indentation is normalised.
Can it remove blank lines?
Yes — turn on blank-line removal and any line that is empty or contains only whitespace is dropped from the result.
Will it keep single spaces between words?
Yes. Only repeated spaces are collapsed; the normal single space between words is preserved.
Is my text uploaded?
No. Cleaning happens entirely in your browser, so your text never leaves your device.
Where do all these extra spaces come from?
Mostly from copying between formats. PDFs store text as positioned fragments, so copying often inserts spaces that were never typed. Web pages add whitespace through their layout markup, spreadsheets pad cells, and older documents carry double spaces after sentences. Merged documents inherit whichever habits each contributor had, which is why pasted-together text is usually the messiest.