Text tool

Whitespace remover

Collapse repeated spaces, strip blank lines, convert tabs — and remove the invisible characters nothing else catches.

Nothing you type is sent anywhere. This runs entirely in your browser — no upload, no server round-trip.

Options

Invisible characters Zero-width spaces and non-breaking spaces, the ones you cannot see but a parser can. Collapse spaces Runs of two or more spaces become one. Trim each line Removes leading and trailing space from every line. Remove blank lines Every empty line goes, leaving one continuous block. Collapse blank lines Keeps paragraph breaks but never more than one at a time. Remove line breaks Joins everything into a single line.

Tabs Width

Your text 0 chars

Cleaned result 0 chars

Your text is saved to this browser only, so it's still here if you come back. Nothing is ever sent to a server.

How to use it

1

Paste your text

Drop it into the box on the left. Nothing is uploaded — conversion happens as you type.
2

Choose your options

Turn on whichever cleanup steps you need. "Remove invisible characters" is on by default.
3

Copy or download

The cleaned text appears on the right immediately. Copy it, or download it as a .txt file.

Questions people ask

What are the "invisible characters" this removes?

Mostly zero-width spaces, zero-width joiners and the word-joiner character. They get into text from copy-pasting out of Word, Google Docs, or a PDF, and they are completely invisible on screen — but they break search-and-replace, CSV imports and string comparisons that expect plain text. A non-breaking space is handled separately: it is converted to a regular space rather than deleted, since deleting it would merge two words together.

Will this corrupt Devanagari or other non-Latin text?

No. Every operation matches specific whitespace and invisible characters — it never touches, reorders or splits anything else, including combining marks and emoji. Devanagari conjuncts and vowel signs pass through exactly as typed.

Is there a size limit?

No hard limit, and nothing is uploaded — it all runs in your browser's memory. Very large pastes (a megabyte or more) may take a moment to process on an older device, but the page will not freeze.

Does this send my text anywhere?

No. There is no server round-trip at all — view the page source or your browser's network tab and you will not see the text leave your machine.

A whitespace remover that catches what others miss

Most online "remove extra spaces" tools do exactly one thing: replace runs of spaces with a single space. That handles the obvious case but misses the one that actually causes problems — invisible characters. A zero-width space or a word-joiner copied out of a Word document or a PDF renders as nothing on screen, survives a normal trim, and then quietly breaks a CSV import, a search-and-replace, or a string comparison in code that expects plain text.

This tool removes those invisible characters by default, alongside the usual cleanup: collapsing repeated spaces, trimming each line, removing or collapsing blank lines, and converting between tabs and spaces at a width you choose. Every option is independent, so you can combine exactly the ones you need — collapsing spaces without touching line breaks, say, or stripping blank lines without collapsing anything else.

When you'd use this

Cleaning up text pasted from a PDF or a Word document before publishing it. Normalising whitespace in a config file or a CSV export before it goes into a script. Stripping the blank lines and invisible characters that make a code diff noisier than it needs to be. Preparing scraped or copy-pasted content for a CMS that mangles inconsistent whitespace.

Limitations

The character and word counts are a practical approximation, not a full Unicode grapheme-cluster count — a multi-part emoji (like a flag or a skin-tone variant) may count as more than one character. This is a text tool, not a rich-text one: it works on plain text, so formatting from a word processor is not preserved either way.