Text & Writing
Whitespace Cleaner
Whitespace Cleaner tidies up text that's been copied from PDFs, emails, or old documents by trimming leading and trailing spaces, collapsing multiple spaces into one, and squashing runs of blank lines down to a single break. It's a quick fix for text that looks fine until you paste it somewhere and the spacing falls apart.
Developers, writers, and anyone pasting text between apps will find it saves the tedium of manual cleanup. The whole process runs client-side in your browser, so your content is never uploaded or stored on a server anywhere.
How to Use the Whitespace Cleaner
- Open the Whitespace Cleaner tool.
- Paste in your messy or inconsistently spaced text.
- Choose which cleanup options to apply, like trimming lines or collapsing blank lines.
- Copy the cleaned-up text back out.
Frequently Asked Questions
What counts as extra whitespace?
Repeated spaces, tabs, trailing spaces at the end of lines, and multiple consecutive blank lines are all detected and cleaned up.
Can I keep single blank lines between paragraphs?
Yes, the tool squashes runs of blank lines down to one instead of removing paragraph breaks entirely.
Is this tool safe for sensitive text?
Yes, cleanup happens entirely in your browser with JavaScript, so your text is never sent anywhere or logged.