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Text Cleaner

Clean messy text copied from PDFs and emails: remove extra spaces, line breaks, tabs, empty lines and smart quotes.

Your files never leave your device

How to use Text Cleaner

  1. 1Paste the messy text.
  2. 2Tick the clean-ups you need.
  3. 3Copy the cleaned text.

Why use this text cleaner

  • Join broken PDF lines
  • Collapse double spaces
  • Strip empty lines and tabs
  • Straighten smart quotes

Most online tools upload your file to their server, process it there and then make you pay to remove limits. This one does the work inside your browser tab instead — so it is faster, it is free for us to run, and your document stays with you.

Questions about Text Cleaner

Why does text copied from a PDF have line breaks everywhere?

PDFs store each visual line separately, so copying adds a break at the end of every line. 'Join broken lines' puts sentences back together but keeps real paragraph gaps.

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