A blue-pencil tool for broken text
Fix hard-wrapped text from PDFs, OCR, emails, and documents. Preserve paragraphs, join every line, or choose exactly what goes between them.
Before Hard-wrapped
Every line ends
too early.
After Cleaned
Every line ends too early.
01 / Proofing Desk
Your text stays in this browser.
Each run of line breaks becomes this exact text.
02 / Method
Paste your text into the input editor and choose how each line ending should be handled. The line break remover updates the result as you type, so you can compare the original and cleaned text before copying anything. For prose copied from a PDF, start with Preserve Paragraphs. For a list or data column, choose Spaces, No Space, or Custom according to the output you need.
The conversion happens entirely in your browser. You can remove line breaks from short notes or long documents without uploading the text, creating an account, or waiting for a server response. Always review the result when line endings carry meaning, especially in code, poetry, postal addresses, tables, and deliberately formatted lists.
Copied text
The research notes were copied
from a narrow document column.
Each visual line became a hard
break in the pasted text.
Preserve Paragraphs
The research notes were copied from a narrow document column. Each visual line became a hard break in the pasted text.
Bring in hard-wrapped text from a PDF, OCR result, email, website, or document. The input remains on your device while you work.
Keep real paragraph breaks, replace line breaks with spaces, delete line breaks completely, or insert your own separator between lines.
Compare the live result with the source, then copy the cleaned text to your clipboard or download it as a plain-text file.
03 / Modes
Removing a line break and replacing it with a space are different operations. The correct mode depends on whether the break separates wrapped words, paragraphs, identifiers, or list items. These examples show exactly what the online line break remover changes.
first line
second line
new paragraphfirst line second line
new paragraphSingle line endings become spaces, while blank lines remain as paragraph boundaries. Use this to remove line breaks from PDF or OCR prose without flattening separate paragraphs.
alpha
beta
gammaalpha beta gammaEvery run of line breaks becomes one space, producing a single readable line. This is useful for headings, copied email text, and content that does not need paragraph spacing.
AB
CDABCDAll breaks disappear without replacement characters. Use No Space for split identifiers, codes, or values whose characters should touch, not for ordinary prose where words need separation.
red
green
bluered, green, blueReplace each run of line breaks with an exact separator such as a comma, pipe, semicolon, slash, or literal text. This quickly converts one-item-per-line content into inline data.
04 / Common Uses
A
PDF pages store text in visual lines, so copied sentences often break at the edge of the printed column. Preserve Paragraphs joins those artificial endings while keeping blank lines between distinct paragraphs.
B
Narrow email panes, websites, and legacy documents can add hard returns that remain after pasting. Remove unwanted line breaks before moving the copy into an editor, CMS, form, or presentation.
C
Names, tags, URLs, and spreadsheet values often arrive one item per line. Use a custom comma, pipe, or semicolon separator to turn the column into a clean inline list.
Review structural text. Code, poetry, addresses, and meaningful lists may depend on their original line breaks.
05 / Notes
Preserve Paragraphs keeps blank-line boundaries and only joins wrapped lines inside each paragraph. No Space removes every line ending and produces one continuous string. Use Preserve Paragraphs for articles and documents; use No Space only when separated characters should be joined directly.
Replace line breaks with a space for sentences and ordinary prose so adjacent words do not run together. Delete line breaks without spaces only when the characters on both sides should touch, such as a broken identifier, product code, or number.
Yes. Choose Custom, then enter a comma, pipe, semicolon, slash, or any literal text you want between former lines. Quick separator buttons are available for common choices, and the preview updates before you copy the result.
Yes. Preserve Paragraphs is designed for hard-wrapped text copied from fixed-layout PDF documents and OCR output. The tool recognizes Windows CRLF, Unix LF, classic Mac CR, and Unicode line separators before cleaning the text.
No. Conversion happens locally in your browser, and your input and result are not sent to our servers. Analytics events contain only the selected mode and broad text-size ranges, never pasted text, cleaned text, clipboard contents, or an exact custom separator.