To remove extra spaces, paste your text into the Remove Extra Spaces tool and it collapses repeated spaces into one and trims stray whitespace at the start and end of lines. It is the quickest way to clean text copied from PDFs, Word documents and emails.
Follow along with the free Remove Extra Spaces, which runs in your browser, or browse more tools in this category.
How to use the Remove Extra Spaces
- Paste the messy text into the tool.
- Choose the cleanup options you want, such as collapsing repeated spaces and trimming line edges.
- Check the cleaned output.
- Copy the clean text back into your document.
Worked example
“Hello world ” becomes “Hello world” once repeated spaces are collapsed and the trailing spaces are trimmed.
Tips and common mistakes
- Text pasted from PDFs often contains invisible or non-breaking spaces, which the tool also normalizes.
- Run it before counting words or characters so stray spaces do not skew the totals.
- If line breaks are the real problem, use the Remove Line Breaks tool as well.
Frequently asked questions
Does it remove line breaks?
Not by default. It focuses on spaces. Use the Remove Line Breaks tool for line breaks.
What are invisible characters?
Characters such as non-breaking spaces look like normal spaces but behave differently. The tool converts them so your text is consistent.
Is my text uploaded?
No. All cleanup happens in your browser.