Remove Extra Spaces Online
Text copied from PDFs, spreadsheets, and websites often lands with double or triple spaces between words, stray tabs, and non-breaking spaces that look normal but behave differently. Paste it here to collapse everything down to single spaces, trim the edges of each line, and get clean text back. Nothing is uploaded.
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How it works
Paste your text into the left panel. The tool scans for any run of two or more spaces and collapses them into one, converts tab characters into a single space, and trims any leading or trailing whitespace from the start and end of each line. Copy the result from the output panel.
What gets cleaned
Double and triple spaces between words are the most common problem. They show up when you paste from a PDF, copy a table column, or pull text off a webpage that used multiple spaces for visual alignment. The tool collapses any run of two or more spaces into exactly one.
Tab characters are a separate issue. Spreadsheet exports, code editors, and TSV files use tabs as delimiters or indentation. When that content gets pasted into plain text, tabs scatter through the text and cause irregular gaps that look like spaces but are not. Those get replaced with a single space too.
Non-breaking spaces are the trickiest. The HTML entity renders as a space visually but is a different character (Unicode U+00A0) that most text editors and parsers do not treat the same way as a regular space. They come from copying off web pages where non-breaking spaces were used to prevent line wrapping. This tool catches and normalises those as well.
Where this problem comes from
PDFs are the biggest source. Text extraction from a PDF often misreads character spacing and inserts two or three spaces wherever a slightly wider gap existed in the original layout.
Spreadsheets create it when you export a column to plain text or paste cell values into a document. Cells that had internal padding or were formatted with tab indentation carry that whitespace into your output.
Websites add it through HTML. Paragraphs and headings on web pages sometimes use multiple spaces or non-breaking spaces for layout reasons. When you copy that text, the spaces copy with it even though the visual formatting does not. If the text also has broken line breaks from the copy, running it through the remove line breaks tool first and then this one gets you clean, continuous prose in two passes.