Whitespace Remover
Clean up messy whitespace: trim lines, collapse spaces, remove blank lines, and convert tabs.
How this tool works
Paste your messy text
Text copied from a PDF, rich-text editor, or terminal output.
Toggle the cleanup options
Trim lines, collapse spaces, remove blank lines, and convert tabs - enable any combination.
See the change happen live
The cleaned output updates immediately as you toggle options.
Check the character counts
Before/after counts show exactly how much whitespace was removed.
Quick facts
- Category
- Text Tools
- Best for
- Cleaning up text copied out of a PDF
About this tool
Paste text with inconsistent spacing - leading or trailing whitespace on lines, repeated spaces where one would do, stray blank lines, or a mix of tabs and spaces - and clean it up using four independent toggles you can combine as needed: trim leading/trailing whitespace per line, collapse runs of multiple spaces into one, remove entirely blank lines, and convert tabs to spaces. Character counts for both the original and cleaned text are shown side by side, so the size of the change is visible immediately rather than being a black-box transformation, which matters most when the "remove blank lines" option is doing a lot of the work. Useful for cleaning up text copied from a PDF or a rich-text editor, normalizing indentation before pasting into a code block, or tidying a list before further processing. Runs entirely client-side.
Why use this tool
Four independent toggles
Combine trim, collapse-spaces, remove-blank-lines, and tabs-to-spaces however you need.
Visible before/after counts
Character counts make the size of the cleanup obvious, not just a vague "cleaned" claim.
Built for copy-paste mess
Specifically targets the whitespace patterns left behind by PDFs and rich-text editors.
Live updates
No process button - toggling any option updates the result immediately.
Frequently asked questions
"Trim leading/trailing per line" only removes whitespace at the very start and end of each individual line, leaving spacing in the middle of a line untouched. "Collapse multiple spaces" instead looks for runs of two or more spaces anywhere in a line - including in the middle of a sentence - and reduces each run down to a single space. They solve different problems and can be combined for a thorough cleanup.
Tabs render at different widths depending on the editor, terminal, or font being used, which can make text that looks aligned in one tool look ragged in another - converting tabs to a fixed number of spaces guarantees the same visual spacing everywhere. This matters especially when pasting code or tabular text into a context (like a chat message or web form) that may not preserve or render tab characters consistently.
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