Text Cleaner
Clean up messy pasted text: trim lines, collapse double spaces, and normalize line endings.
About Text Cleaner
Copying text between applications usually drags along hidden formatting: double spaces, tabs, stray line breaks, and odd spacing from PDFs or rich-text editors. Pasting that into a plain-text field or a code file creates formatting chaos that is annoying to fix by hand.
The cleaner trims whitespace from the edges of every line, collapses runs of spaces into one, converts tabs to a single space, and normalizes line endings. Every cleanup is optional, so you keep spacing you actually need, and ASCII art, aligned tables, and indented code stay intact when you leave those options off.
Writers pasting drafts out of Word, developers dropping code into issues and chat, and editors preparing clean manuscripts all use it. It is the fastest way to turn a messy clipboard into text that behaves itself.
How to Use
- Paste the messy text.
- Choose which cleanups to apply: trim, collapse spaces, or normalize endings.
- Copy the cleaned result.
Example
Hello world Second line Hello world Second line
Leading/trailing spaces are removed and multiple internal spaces collapse to one, turning ragged pasted text into clean content.
FAQ
What exactly does the cleaner do?
It trims whitespace from line edges, collapses runs of spaces, converts tabs to a single space, and normalizes line endings.
Will it remove intentional formatting?
Each cleanup is optional. Leave an option off if your text needs its spacing preserved, such as ASCII art or aligned tables.
Why does pasted text look messy?
Rich text, email signatures, and PDFs copy hidden formatting like double spaces, tabs, and odd line breaks that this tool strips out.
Does it change the text content itself?
No, only whitespace is altered. Letters, numbers, punctuation, and word order are never touched, so the cleaned result says exactly what the original said, word for word.
How is the cleaned output formatted?
Line breaks between paragraphs are preserved while edge spaces and double spaces are removed, keeping your paragraphs readable rather than collapsing everything into a single block.