Text Cleaner & Formatter
Clean up text by removing extra spaces, blank lines, special characters, and formatting issues.
About Text Cleaner
Paste messy text from PDFs, web pages or documents and clean it up automatically. Choose which cleaning operations to apply.
About this calculator
Paste messy text and choose what to remove: extra spaces, blank lines, line breaks, special characters, numbers and tabs. One click gives clean, tidy text.
A common fix after copying from PDFs, emails or web pages, where stray spaces and broken lines creep in.
How to use it
- Paste the text.
- Tick the clean-ups you want.
- Press Clean Text.
Options
Extra spaces collapses runs of spaces to one. Blank lines deletes empty lines. Line breaks joins lines into a paragraph. Special characters strips symbols. Numbers removes digits. Tabs converts tabs to spaces.
Worked example
Before: 'Hello···world' with blank lines and extra space
| After | Hello world / bye |
Tips and common mistakes
- Untick line breaks if you want to keep paragraphs.
- Strip numbers only when you are sure they are noise.
- Copying from PDFs often inserts a break after every line, so use the Line breaks option.
- Run it once, then check the result.
- Use the Whitespace Remover for finer control over spaces.
Frequently asked questions
What does the text cleaner do?
It removes extra spaces, blank lines, special characters and other clutter.
Can it join broken lines?
Yes, with the line-break option.
Will it remove punctuation?
Special characters are removed if ticked.
Does it change my words?
No.
Can I clean numbers?
Yes, optionally.
Is it safe for confidential text?
Yes, nothing leaves your browser.