Remove Line Breaks
Join broken lines into clean paragraphs and remove extra spaces.
How to use Remove Line Breaks
- Paste text copied from a PDF, email or website.
- Choose whether to keep paragraph breaks.
- Copy the cleaned text.
How it works
Text copied from PDFs keeps the PDF’s visual line endings, so sentences break mid-line when pasted elsewhere. This tool joins those lines back together. With Keep paragraph breaks on, a blank line is treated as the end of a paragraph and preserved, so structure survives while the stray breaks inside paragraphs disappear.
Collapse repeated spaces turns runs of spaces (including non-breaking spaces) into one, and Trim spaces at line ends removes invisible trailing spaces before the lines are joined.
Frequently asked questions
Why does PDF text have line breaks in the middle of sentences?
PDFs store text as positioned lines for printing, not as flowing paragraphs. When you copy it, each visual line ends with a break.
Will it merge my paragraphs?
Not if "Keep paragraph breaks" is on: blank lines between paragraphs are kept.
Can it fix hyphenated words split across lines?
Not automatically, because hyphens may be real. Use Find and Replace with the regex -\n to join them if you are sure.
Is the text kept anywhere?
No. It stays in your browser.
Limitations
- If a PDF has no blank lines between paragraphs, paragraphs cannot be detected and will be joined.
- Hyphenation at line ends is left as is.
Last reviewed November 9, 2026. How we build and test tools.