Remove Line Breaks
TextStrip unwanted line breaks from pasted text while optionally keeping real paragraph breaks, and collapse leftover double spaces. Ideal for text copied out of a PDF or email.
Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Unwrap text, keep paragraphs
Text copied out of a PDF, an email, or a terminal arrives broken at every visual line rather than at the end of each paragraph, so pasting it anywhere else produces a ragged mess that has to be fixed by hand. This tool removes those breaks in one pass, and it can tell the difference between the single breaks inside a paragraph and the blank lines between paragraphs — so you get flowing text without losing the structure.
How to remove line breaks from text
- 1
Paste your text
Drop in anything that has come out broken across lines.
- 2
Choose what replaces each break
A space for running text, nothing at all for joining fragments, or keep-paragraphs to unwrap lines while preserving paragraph breaks.
- 3
Copy the clean version
Take the result straight into your document, CMS, or email.
Good to know
- Keep-paragraphs mode is almost always what you want for PDF text: it unwraps the lines but leaves the blank-line breaks between paragraphs intact.
- The collapse-spaces option cleans up the double spaces that PDF and email text tends to leave behind once the breaks are gone.
- Windows and Unix line endings are normalised first, so text from any operating system behaves the same.
- A count of how many breaks were removed is shown, so you can tell it actually did something.
What people use it for
- Fixing text copied out of a PDF that breaks mid-sentence
- Cleaning up a forwarded email full of quoted-line breaks
- Joining a column of lines into a single paragraph
Frequently asked questions
Can I keep paragraph breaks?+
Yes. The "keep paragraphs" mode unwraps single line breaks inside a paragraph but preserves blank-line breaks between paragraphs, which is what you usually want for text copied out of a PDF.
Why does PDF text break mid-sentence?+
A PDF stores each visual line separately, so copying it inserts a hard return at the end of every line rather than only at the end of each paragraph. Removing those breaks restores flowing text.
Does it handle Windows line endings?+
Yes. Carriage-return and line-feed pairs are normalised first, so text from any operating system is treated the same.
Is my data sent to a server?+
No. Cleaning text happens entirely in your browser using built-in web APIs. Nothing is uploaded, stored, or logged.
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