Remove Extra Spaces
Clean up double spaces, leading spaces, and trailing spaces from your text instantly.
Where Do Extra Spaces Come From?
Extra spaces often appear when copying text from PDFs, web pages, or word processors. PDFs in particular add spaces between words inconsistently during text extraction. Double spaces after periods were also a common typwriting convention that many people still use today. Pasting between applications can introduce leading and trailing spaces on each line.
What This Tool Does
This tool performs three cleaning operations:
- Removes leading spaces — trims whitespace from the beginning of each line.
- Removes trailing spaces — trims whitespace from the end of each line.
- Collapses multiple spaces — replaces two or more consecutive spaces with a single space.
Common Use Cases
- Cleaning up text copied from PDFs
- Normalizing data before importing into a database
- Fixing double spaces in articles or essays
- Preparing clean input for natural language processing
- Fixing pasted text in code editors