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Remove line breaks from text and join it into one continuous paragraph.
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Text copied from a PDF, an email, or a scanned document often carries a line break at the end of every visual line -- fine for reading, but a problem when you paste it somewhere that should flow as one paragraph (a form field, a translation tool, a word-count check). This tool collapses every line break into a single space and joins the text into one continuous paragraph, entirely in your browser.
Paste your text into the input box. The cleaned result -- with every line break removed and replaced by a single space -- appears instantly as you type, ready to copy or download.
The cleaning happens in three small steps. First, every line ending, whether Windows style, older Mac style, or Unix style, is replaced with a single space. Second, any run of spaces or tabs is collapsed into one space, which means the stray double spaces that often sit at the end of wrapped lines disappear as well. Third, spaces at the very beginning and end of the whole text are trimmed. Nothing else is touched: capitalization, punctuation, numbers, and special characters all pass through unchanged.
Imagine you copy three lines out of a PDF:
Pasted into the tool, these become one line: The committee reviewed the proposal and agreed that funding should be approved in March. The words are intact and correctly spaced, ready to paste into a form field or a translation tool that would otherwise treat each line as a separate paragraph.
This cleanup is helpful before running a word or character count on text with hard-wrapped lines, before pasting into a survey field that rejects line breaks, when preparing a single-line value for a spreadsheet cell, or when building a search query from copied notes. It also helps when an email client has inserted a hard break after every 70 or so characters, which makes quoted text look ragged when pasted into a different width.
Skim the finished text once before using it, especially near places where a page break or column break occurred in the source. Page numbers, running headers, and footnote markers copied from a PDF are ordinary text to this tool and will remain in the output, so remove them yourself if they crept in.
Yes -- every line break becomes a single space, so the result is one continuous block of text with no paragraph breaks at all. If you need to keep paragraphs separate but just tidy up spacing, the Extra Space Remover tool is a better fit.
No -- everything runs locally in your browser using JavaScript. Your text is never uploaded anywhere.
Yes. After replacing line breaks with spaces, it collapses any run of spaces or tabs into a single space, and trims spaces at the very start and end.
That comes from the source text, where a word was hyphenated across two lines. The tool joins the lines with a space and does not remove the hyphen, so fix those words manually.
Not with this tool, since every line break becomes a space. Process each paragraph separately and rejoin them, or use a tool that collapses spaces without touching line breaks.
No. Only line breaks and repeated spaces or tabs are changed. Everything else in your text is left as you pasted it.