Collapse double spaces, trim lines and tidy blank lines in one pass.
Remove repeated spaces and tabs, strip whitespace from the start and end of every line, and keep, collapse or delete blank lines. Line structure is never flattened. Runs entirely in your browser — your text is never uploaded.
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Copying from PDFs, web pages and Word often brings along the spacing used for layout rather than for the words — double spaces after sentences, tabs used as indentation, non-breaking spaces from HTML. It looks fine visually but breaks search, comparison and anything that processes the text.
No, line structure is preserved — this collapses runs of spaces and tabs and trims trailing whitespace, with an option for blank lines. If you need to join wrapped lines back into flowing paragraphs, our Remove Line Breaks tool is the one built for that.
It is invisible but consequential. In code it creates noisy diffs and some linters reject it. In data it breaks exact matching, so "Smith " never equals "Smith" in a lookup or deduplication. It is a frequent cause of imports that fail for no visible reason.
Yes, Remove Extra Spaces is completely free. No signup, no account, and no watermark on outputs. A Pro tier is available for 100 AI ops/day and larger file sizes.
Remove Extra Spaces runs entirely in your browser. Your file is never uploaded — it is read, processed and saved locally, so it never reaches our servers or anyone else's. You can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and it still works.
Blank lines
What it removes: Runs of repeated spaces and tabs, whitespace hiding at the start and end of lines, and surplus blank lines — the debris left behind by copy-paste, OCR output and hand-editing.
Line breaks are safe: Spacing is normalised line by line, so your line structure is never flattened. If you also want to unwrap hard-wrapped text, use Remove Line Breaks.
Blank lines: Keep them as they are, collapse runs of them into a single blank line (tidy paragraph spacing), or strip them out entirely for a compact list.
Privacy: Pure JavaScript running locally. Your text never touches a server, so it works offline and is safe for sensitive documents.