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Free Text Cleaner

Tidy up text copied from PDFs, documents, emails or other tools. Choose what to clean, then copy the result.

Cleaning options

Original characters
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Cleaned characters
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Characters removed
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Cleaning happens in your browser. Your text is not sent anywhere and is not saved.

What each option does

  • Normalize line breaks: converts Windows, old Mac and Unicode line separators into standard line breaks.
  • Convert tabs to spaces: replaces each tab with a single space.
  • Remove extra spaces: reduces runs of spaces, including non-breaking spaces, to one space.
  • Trim lines: removes spaces and tabs at the start and end of every line.
  • Remove duplicate consecutive lines: deletes a line when it is identical to the line directly above it.
  • Remove blank lines: deletes every empty line.
  • Reduce multiple blank lines to one: keeps paragraph breaks but removes extra empty lines, including at the start and end.
  • Remove all line breaks: joins everything into a single paragraph separated by spaces.

Options are applied in the order listed. Your original text is never changed; the result appears in the cleaned text box.

Cleaning text copied from PDFs

Text copied from a PDF often has a line break at the end of every printed line, double spaces and stray blank lines. Start with the defaults. If sentences are broken across lines, turn on Remove all line breaks, then add paragraph breaks back where you need them. Check hyphenated words that were split at the end of a line, because the cleaner does not rejoin them.

Cleaning AI-generated or copied text

Text copied from chat tools, web pages or email can carry inconsistent spacing and extra empty lines. The cleaner tidies that formatting only. It does not rewrite, fact-check or detect AI-generated writing, so review the content itself before you publish. Our guide on what AI writing can and can't do covers what to check.

Cleaning pasted document content

When you paste from word processors or spreadsheets into a plain text box, tabs, indentation and blank rows often come with it. Convert tabs to spaces and trim lines to remove indentation, then reduce or remove blank lines. The cleaner works on plain text, so bold, links and other formatting are not kept.

Privacy: cleaning happens in your browser

The cleaning runs as a script in your browser. The text you paste is not sent to WriterFlowLab and is not stored by this page. As with any website, avoid pasting highly sensitive information into tools you do not need to use for it, and remember that browser extensions on your device can read pages you visit.

Frequently asked questions

Does the cleaner change my original text?

No. It reads your text and shows the result in a separate box, so you can compare the two.

Why did the character count go down?

Removed spaces, tabs, blank lines and duplicate lines all count as removed characters. Characters removed is the original count minus the cleaned count.

Can it fix spelling or grammar?

No. It only changes whitespace and repeated lines. For spelling and grammar, use an editing tool such as Grammarly.