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Whitespace Cleaner

Paste your text below. Extra spaces, excessive blank lines, and tab indentation are removed automatically as you type.

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About this tool

The Whitespace Cleaner solves a problem that crops up constantly when working with text from mixed sources. Copying from PDFs, Word documents, web pages, or code editors often brings along invisible clutter — double spaces between words, trailing spaces at line ends, three or four consecutive blank lines, and tabs where regular spaces belong. Pasting such text into a database field, a CMS editor, or a git commit message creates inconsistencies that are hard to spot. This tool collapses multiple horizontal spaces to a single space, strips trailing whitespace from each line, and reduces runs of more than two blank lines down to a single separator. The result is clean, consistent text ready to use anywhere. Nothing is sent to a server and no data is retained after you close the tab.

Examples

Example 1 – Removing extra spaces

Input: "Hello   world   !"
Output: "Hello world !"

Example 2 – Collapse blank lines

Input:\nLine1\n\n\nLine2\n\n\n\nLine3\nOutput:\nLine1\n\nLine2\n\nLine3

Example 3 – Trim trailing spaces

Input: "Line with space   \nNext line"
Output: "Line with space\nNext line"

Frequently asked questions

What exactly does this remove?
It collapses extra spaces between words, trims leading/trailing whitespace, and reduces runs of multiple blank lines down to normal paragraph spacing.
Will this remove intentional line breaks or paragraph spacing?
No. It collapses excessive blank lines but preserves single line breaks and standard paragraph structure.
Why does pasted text from PDFs or Word docs need this?
Copying from PDFs or Word often introduces irregular spacing, trailing spaces, and broken formatting. This tool normalizes that clutter so the text behaves consistently when you paste it elsewhere.
Does it preserve indentation for code?
Tab indentation can be optionally trimmed, preserving the relative structure while normalizing the leading whitespace of each line.
Can I clean text from email signatures automatically?
Yes. Email replies often accumulate trailing spaces and irregular line breaks — this tool strips them in one pass.
What is tab to space conversion?
The tool can replace tab characters with a configurable number of spaces, which is helpful when moving code between editors with different tab settings.

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