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Whitespace Remover

Clean up messy whitespace in your text. Trim leading and trailing spaces, collapse extra spaces, and remove blank lines.

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About This Tool

Free whitespace remover online — strip leading and trailing spaces, collapse multiple consecutive spaces into one, remove blank lines, and delete tab characters from any text, instantly in your browser. No sign-up, no uploads. Common use cases: cleaning text copied from PDFs (which often introduces extra line breaks and spaces), normalizing data exported from spreadsheets, removing extra indentation from code snippets pasted into documents, and preparing clean text for database imports. This whitespace cleaner is especially useful for data engineers cleaning CSV content, copywriters normalizing text from multiple sources, and developers trimming whitespace from user input examples.

How to Use

  1. 1

    Paste your text

    Paste text with extra whitespace into the input.

  2. 2

    Choose options

    Select which whitespace to remove: leading/trailing spaces, extra spaces between words, blank lines, or tabs.

  3. 3

    Copy the cleaned text

    Click Remove and copy the cleaned result.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does "trim whitespace" mean?+
Trimming removes spaces and tabs from the very start and end of a line or string. " Hello " becomes "Hello". It is one of the most common string operations in any programming language.
Can it remove blank lines only?+
Yes. Toggle the "Remove blank lines" option to delete empty lines while preserving all other formatting.

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