Remove Extra Spaces – Free Online Tool
Free online Remove Extra Spaces tool to remove extra spaces and whitespace from text. Clean up multiple spaces, tabs, and line breaks. Perfect for text cleaning and formatting. All processing happens locally.
Example Output
Multiple spaces collapsed, edges trimmed.
Hello world !
What is Remove Extra Spaces?
Remove Extra Spaces collapses multiple consecutive spaces to single spaces and trims leading/trailing whitespace. Useful for cleaning up pasted text from OCR, badly-formatted exports, or content where copy-paste introduced stray whitespace.
Why use this tool?
- Works on desktop, tablet, and mobile in any modern browser
- Stable behavior across visits — no surprise version drift
- Your data stays private — all processing happens locally in the browser
- Handles Unicode correctly — emoji, CJK, Arabic, and accented Latin all stay intact
- Cleanly handles pasted content with mixed line endings (CRLF, LF, CR)
How to use
- Paste your text
- Click Process — multiple consecutive spaces collapse to single spaces, leading/trailing spaces trimmed
- Optional: also strip non-breaking spaces, tabs
- Copy clean output
Examples
OCR cleanup
OCR often produces "h ello world" — one click and you have "hello world".
PDF copy-paste
Text copied from PDFs often has odd spacing. Normalise it before pasting into a doc.
Common use cases
- Cleaning up OCR output
- Normalising whitespace in PDF copy-paste
- Preparing text for word-counting or analysis
- Removing inconsistent whitespace before publishing
Troubleshooting
- Non-breaking spaces still appear.
- Some sources insert / U+00A0 characters that look like spaces. Enable "strip non-breaking spaces" to remove them too.
Frequently Asked Questions
This tool removes multiple consecutive spaces, tabs, and can normalize line breaks. It converts any sequence of whitespace characters into a single space.
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