Remove Extra Spaces
Collapse double spaces and trim leading/trailing whitespace in one click — perfect for cleaning pasted PDF or Word text.
What is Remove Extra Spaces?
You paste from a PDF and end up with double spaces, weird tabs and stray whitespace everywhere. Find-and-replace one-at-a-time won't catch them all.
Paste the messy text and get a clean, single-spaced version instantly.
If you're cleaning PDF copy, you fix the broken spacing in seconds. If you're prepping content for a CMS, you avoid layout glitches from invisible characters. If you're processing form input, you normalize whitespace before saving to a database.
How to use Remove Extra Spaces
Four steps. No setup, no signup.
Step 1
Paste your messy text
Step 2
See the cleaned version with single spaces
Step 3
Verify line breaks and paragraphs look right
Step 4
Hit Copy and use the clean version
Example
Messy spacing becomes clean, single-spaced text.
Input
Hello world, this is Toolkno.
Output
Hello world, this is Toolkno.
Why Remove Extra Spaces is useful
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Fix double-spaces from PDF or Word pastes in one click.
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Trim leading and trailing whitespace on every line.
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Convert tabs and non-breaking spaces to clean spaces.
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Keeps paragraph breaks intact — only inside-line whitespace collapses.
Common questions
What kinds of whitespace get cleaned?
Multiple spaces collapse to one. Tabs and leading/trailing spaces on each line are also trimmed.
Tip: Pair with Remove Line Breaks for total whitespace cleanup.
Will it preserve paragraph breaks?
Blank lines between paragraphs stay intact. Only inside-line whitespace collapses.
Tip: If paragraphs get merged, your input had no real blank lines.
Does it handle non-breaking spaces?
Yes, it converts non-breaking spaces (U+00A0) to regular spaces and collapses them.
Tip: PDFs often embed these invisibly.
Will tabs become spaces?
Tabs are converted to a single space.
Tip: For code with intentional tabs, don't run this tool.
Last reviewed: April 2026 · Free, browser-based, no signup.
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