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Whitespace Cleaner

Fix messy whitespace in pasted text: trim lines, remove blank lines, collapse spaces and normalize tabs. Instant, free, private.

Text input

Paste messy text, tick the cleanups you want, copy the result.

Cleaned text

Paste text to see cleanup stats.

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How cleaning works

Each cleanup is a simple text pass applied in order: tabs become spaces, trailing spaces are stripped, lines are trimmed, runs of spaces collapse to one, and empty lines drop out. Tick only the fixes you need and the result updates live, with a counter showing exactly how many characters were removed.

Where messy whitespace comes from

Pasted content from PDFs, Word documents, chat apps and web pages often carries double spaces, stray tabs and blank lines. Running it through this cleaner before publishing or feeding it to another tool prevents broken formatting and weird gaps.

Whitespace Cleaner FAQs

Will it change the words in my text?
No. Only whitespace characters (spaces, tabs, line breaks) are touched. Words, punctuation and numbers stay exactly as typed.
Can I keep single blank lines between paragraphs?
The empty-line remover deletes all blank lines. If you want paragraph spacing, leave that option off and only trim and collapse spaces.
Does it handle Windows line endings?
Yes. Carriage returns are treated as line breaks during processing, and the output uses clean Unix-style newlines.
What does collapsing spaces do to indented code?
It reduces every run of two or more spaces to one, which flattens code indentation. For code, untick that option and keep just trim and trailing-space removal.
Is my text sent anywhere?
No. The cleanup runs as local JavaScript; your text never leaves the tab.
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