Remove Extra Spaces

Summary

Paste your text and instantly collapse all multiple spaces, tabs, and newlines into single spaces with leading/trailing whitespace removed.

How it works

1. Paste or type your text into the input area on the left.
2. Choose whether to also collapse newlines or preserve them.
3. The cleaned text appears instantly in the output panel on the right.
4. Click "Copy Output" to copy the cleaned text to your clipboard.
5. Use "Clear" to reset both panels and start fresh.

Use cases

• Clean up text copied from PDFs or web pages that have extra spaces.
• Normalize user-submitted form data before storing in a database.
• Fix copy-paste artifacts from Microsoft Word or Google Docs.
• Prepare text for character-count-sensitive fields like SMS or tweets.
• Remove accidental double spaces introduced during editing.
• Tidy up code comments or documentation strings.

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