How Remove Extra Spaces Works
The tool scans each line and replaces any run of spaces or tabs with a single space, then trims trailing whitespace from the end of every line. If enabled, it also looks for three or more consecutive blank lines and collapses them down to a single blank line, which is useful for text copied out of PDFs or old documents with inconsistent spacing.
How to Use This Tool
- Paste your text into the input box.
- Leave the blank-line option checked, or uncheck it if you want to preserve spacing between paragraphs exactly.
- Select Clean Text to process it.
- Copy the tidied result with Copy Result.
Example
Input "Hello world, this has extra spaces. " becomes "Hello world, this has extra spaces." — every run of spaces is collapsed to one, and the trailing spaces are trimmed.
Helpful Tips
- This won't touch single spaces, so normal sentence spacing is left exactly as you typed it.
- Run text through this tool before pasting into a CMS or code editor to avoid invisible extra whitespace causing formatting bugs.
- Tabs are treated the same as spaces, so tab-indented text will also get flattened to single spaces.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this remove single spaces between words?
No, only runs of two or more spaces or tabs are collapsed down to one space — normal single-space gaps are left untouched.
What happens to blank lines between paragraphs?
A single blank line between paragraphs is preserved. Only three or more blank lines in a row are collapsed, and only if that option is checked.
Does it remove leading indentation?
Leading spaces at the start of a line are collapsed like any other run of spaces, so heavily indented text will lose most of its indentation.
Will this fix spacing inside HTML or code?
It's designed for plain text and prose, not code — running it on code could unintentionally break indentation that matters syntactically.
This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your input is not uploaded to any server.