Remove Extra Spaces
Strip leading, trailing and extra whitespace from every line.
About Remove Extra Spaces
Remove Extra Spaces collapses repeated spaces into one, trims leading and trailing whitespace, and can drop blank lines — the usual fix for text pasted out of a PDF or a spreadsheet.
It is a text cleanup, not a formatter: indentation in code will be destroyed, so do not run it on source files.
How to use Remove Extra Spaces
- 1
Paste the text
Pasted PDF text often contains non-breaking spaces, which are handled too.
- 2
Choose what to collapse
Multiple spaces, line-leading spaces, or empty lines.
- 3
Copy the cleaned text
Review the result — collapsing spaces can join words that were separated intentionally.
Questions about Remove Extra Spaces
Does it remove tabs?
Yes, tabs are converted to a single space when collapsing whitespace.
Will it break code?
Yes, indentation is whitespace. Use it on prose, not source files.
What about non-breaking spaces?
They are normalised, which is exactly what fixes copy pasted from PDFs and web pages.
Can it remove all line breaks?
Yes, there is an option to join everything into a single paragraph.
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Last updated November 2026. Files are processed on FilePlume's own hardware and deleted within 60 minutes; nothing is used for training.