Text Cleaner
Collapse messy whitespace into clean single-spaced text — extra spaces, line padding, and blank-line runs squashed. Fix copy-paste mess from PDFs and web — local cleaning, free, no signup.
How to Use the Text Cleaner
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Frequently Asked Questions
What gets cleaned?
Every run of spaces, tabs, and newlines collapses to a single space and each line gets trimmed — including non-breaking spaces. Smart quotes are untouched (no normalization pass), and multi-line input comes out single-line, so keep a copy if paragraph breaks matter.
Smart quotes to straight?
No conversion pass exists — curly quotes stay curly. For code and CSV contexts, straighten quotes in an editor first, then clean here.
Invisible characters?
Only standard whitespace collapses — zero-width spaces and BOM markers survive, so they cannot explain every parse failure away. Strip those ghosts with a separate regex pass and verify with a hex view after.
Do cleaned docs upload?
No — cleaning runs locally in your browser. Text never leaves your device.
What does the Messy preset turn into?
Padded, multi-space text with triple newlines collapses to single-spaced words: every whitespace run including newlines becomes one space and the result trims, so output is single-line. Curly quotes and zero-width characters survive; keep a copy if paragraph breaks matter.
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Last updated October 2026