Remove Extra Spaces
Collapse double spaces and trim leading/trailing whitespace in one click — perfect for cleaning pasted PDF or Word text.
How to Use This Remove Extra Spaces
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
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.
Frequently Asked 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.
Can it fix indented lists?
Indentation gets stripped along with other leading whitespace.
Tip: Use a markdown formatter if you need to preserve list indents.
Why does pasted text have hidden spaces?
Word and PDFs use unique whitespace characters for layout that often paste invisibly.
Tip: Combine with Normalize Unicode for a full clean.