Whitespace Cleaner
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Clean spacing without rewriting your words
Paste text, choose exactly which spacing problems to fix, then select Clean text. The result keeps the wording and line order intact while applying the options you selected.
What this cleaner changes
Copied text often carries stray tabs, doubled spaces, or padded lines from PDFs, spreadsheets, email, and web pages. This tool handles those invisible nuisances. Repeated-space cleanup turns runs of ordinary spaces and tabs into one space. Line trimming removes padding at either end of every line. Blank-line removal drops lines containing nothing but whitespace.
The controls are independent. Leave blank-line removal off when paragraph breaks matter. Turn off repeated-space cleanup when aligned plain-text columns or intentional indentation must survive.
A worked example
Suppose the input is Order confirmed, followed by two empty lines and then a line reading Ships Friday with spaces at both ends. With all three options selected, the first line becomes “Order confirmed,” both blank lines disappear, and the last line loses its outer padding. The words and capitalization do not change.
Line breaks are not spaces
A line break separates lines; a space separates characters on one line. Collapsing repeated spaces never joins separate lines. Removing blank lines does close vertical gaps, but it still preserves each nonblank line as its own line. If you need one continuous paragraph, that is a different editing decision and should not happen silently.
Places where cleanup needs care
Plain-text tables, source code, poetry, mailing addresses, and ASCII art may rely on exact spacing. Review those materials before copying the result elsewhere. Nonbreaking spaces and unusual Unicode spacing characters may look ordinary but are not always interchangeable with standard spaces. This cleaner focuses on common spaces, tabs, and blank lines rather than attempting to normalize every Unicode character.
Privacy and limitations
Cleaning happens in your browser. Awesome Tools does not upload the pasted text, and the page does not save it after you leave. The tool does not correct spelling, punctuation, smart quotes, hyphenation, encoding, or paragraph wording. Rich formatting such as fonts, links, colors, and lists is not retained because the input and output are plain text.
Whitespace Cleaner FAQ
Will it remove paragraph breaks?
Only when a paragraph is represented by a blank line and you select “Remove blank lines.” Otherwise line breaks remain.
Can I undo a cleanup?
The original stays in the upper box until you clear or replace it, so you can change options and run the cleaner again.
Why does pasted formatting disappear?
Text areas accept plain text. Use a document editor when you need to preserve rich formatting.