Remove Extra Spaces
This free online space remover cleans up text that came from PDFs, terminals, OCR output, chat paste or old documents: runs of spaces and tabs collapse into a single space, and trailing whitespace at the end of every line is stripped, so diffs stop showing phantom changes and layouts stop drifting.
How to use
- Paste your text into the editor below.
- Optionally enable remove empty lines or remove all spaces between characters.
- Copy the cleaned result; the counter shows how many characters were removed.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly counts as an "extra space"?
Any run of two or more whitespace characters — spaces, tabs or a mix — becomes one single space, and whitespace at the end of each line is removed entirely. Single spaces between words are never touched.
How are tabs handled?
Tabs are treated the same as spaces: a run of tabs and spaces collapses into one space, trailing tabs are stripped with the rest of the line-end whitespace, and in between-character mode tabs are removed like any other space.
What does "remove all spaces between characters" do?
It deletes every space and tab inside each line, keeping the line breaks. It is designed for CJK text where a space got inserted between every character. It will also join English words together — enable it only when that is what you want.
Does removing empty lines also remove lines of only spaces?
Yes. The empty-line check runs after cleaning, so a line containing only spaces or tabs is already empty by then and gets removed together with the truly blank ones.
Is my text uploaded anywhere?
No. The cleaning is plain JavaScript running on your device, and nothing is stored or logged. Confidential documents are as safe as anything else pasted here.
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About this tool
This free online space remover cleans up text that came from PDFs, terminals, OCR output, chat paste or old documents: runs of spaces and tabs collapse into a single space, and trailing whitespace at the end of every line is stripped, so diffs stop showing phantom changes and layouts stop drifting. Two switches cover the deeper cleanups. Remove empty lines drops every line that is blank after cleaning — useful for pasted email chains and scraped pages. Remove all spaces between characters deletes every space and tab inside each line while keeping the line structure intact, made for Chinese text where spacing was inserted between every character; note that it will also join English words, so it is a per-case tool, not a default. Tabs are treated exactly like spaces: folded with them, stripped at line ends, and removed in between-character mode. A counter shows exactly how many characters were removed, and everything recomputes live as you type or toggle. Processing happens entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded, so documents under NDA are as welcome as grocery lists.