Whitespace Cleaner
Trim lines, collapse repeated spaces and strip blank lines from text. Free and private, right in your browser.
Whitespace Cleaner strips out the trailing spaces, doubled-up gaps, stray tabs, and piled-up blank lines that sneak into text copied from PDFs, emails, and web pages, so it's ready to paste into code, a spreadsheet, or a form field without breaking anything.
How to use it
- Paste or type your text into the box
- Choose which cleanup rules to apply (trim lines, collapse spaces, remove blank lines)
- Copy the cleaned result back out
Frequently asked questions
- What counts as "whitespace" here?
- Spaces, tabs, and line breaks: trailing spaces at the end of lines, double spaces between words, leading indentation, extra blank lines stacked up, and non-breaking spaces pasted in from web pages or PDFs.
- Will it touch the actual words or formatting?
- No. It only normalizes spacing and line breaks. Your text, capitalization, and punctuation stay exactly as typed.
- Is my text uploaded anywhere?
- No. Cleaning happens right in your browser tab, so pasted text (even from confidential documents) never leaves your device.
- Why does copy-pasted text from Word or a PDF end up with weird spacing?
- Those formats often embed non-breaking spaces, tabs used as indentation, or hidden line breaks that look fine on screen but cause double-spacing or misalignment once pasted elsewhere. This tool strips those out.
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Nothing is uploaded
The file never leaves your device. There is no server to send it to, so there is nothing to leak, log, or subpoena.
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No signup, no limits
No account, no email, no daily cap, no watermark, and no paid tier waiting behind the third file.
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Works offline
Load the page once and it keeps working with the network off, because all the work was always happening locally.