Remove Extra Whitespace
Collapse Repeated Spaces Into Single Spaces Instantly
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Text pasted from a PDF, an old spreadsheet, or an email chain frequently carries double and triple spaces left over from the original formatting. This tool collapses every run of repeated whitespace down to a single space, instantly cleaning up text that would otherwise look sloppy or inconsistent once pasted somewhere new.
Your text
No extra spaces found yet
Features
- Runs entirely in your browser
- Privacy-first — your data is never uploaded
- Real-time, instant results
- 100% free, no sign-up required
- Works on desktop, tablet, and mobile
- No installation needed
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About Remove Extra Whitespace
Extra spaces creep into text constantly and quietly: two spaces after a period (a typing habit many people learned on typewriters, where it made sense, but which modern proportional fonts don't need), a stray double space left behind after deleting a word, or a whole block of oddly-spaced text pasted from a PDF or a table where column alignment relied on repeated spaces instead of real formatting. Individually these are invisible in a text editor, but they cause real problems downstream: extra spaces can break exact-match searches, inflate character counts against a strict limit, look sloppy in published copy, and occasionally cause visible double-gaps in rendered HTML or a document layout.
This tool does one job well: it collapses every run of two or more spaces or tabs on a line down to a single space, and (by default) trims any leading or trailing whitespace from each line so text doesn't start or end with invisible padding. A separate toggle lets you also strip out entirely blank lines, which is useful when text was pasted with extra paragraph breaks between every line — common when copying from a PDF or a webpage that used empty paragraphs for visual spacing rather than proper formatting.
It's a narrower, more predictable tool than a full text cleaner: it only touches whitespace, never removing punctuation, HTML, or actual words, which makes it safe to run on any text without worrying about it altering content you didn't intend to change. The result shows exactly how many extra spaces were removed, so you get quick confirmation of what changed even when the difference isn't visually obvious at a glance.
Everything runs instantly in your browser as you type or paste, using a straightforward regular expression pass over each line — there's no upload, no file size limit, and no noticeable delay even on long documents.
How it works
- Paste your text. Drop in text with inconsistent or doubled-up spacing.
- Choose your options. Decide whether to trim each line's edges and remove fully blank lines.
- Copy the cleaned text. The result, with a count of spaces removed, appears instantly.
Examples
Doubled spaces after periods
Input
This is a sentence. It has extra spaces.
Output
This is a sentence. It has extra spaces.