Remove Line Breaks
Fix text pasted from PDFs and emails โ unwrap lines, keep paragraphs.
About this tool
Paste mangled text, get clean prose. The smart default treats blank lines as real paragraph breaks and every other newline as wrap damage โ which is exactly the mess PDFs, emails and ebooks produce โ and it rejoins words that were hyphen-split across lines ("exam- ple" becomes "example"). One mode removes every break; another also collapses doubled spaces.
Why pasted text arrives broken
PDFs and old email standards hard-wrap text at a fixed column width โ the line breaks are baked into the characters, not the layout, so pasting carries the jagged edges along. Word processors then treat each fragment as its own paragraph, and re-wrapping by hand is the tax everyone pays. The one honest caveat: no tool can perfectly distinguish a poem's intentional line breaks from a PDF's accidental ones โ that's what the mode switch is for. Deduping, sorting and trimming lines live in the full text cleaner; counting what you cleaned is the text counter's job.
Frequently asked questions
How do I remove line breaks but keep paragraphs?
Use the default mode: blank lines are kept as paragraph boundaries, single newlines are treated as wrap damage and become spaces. That matches how PDFs and emails actually break text.
Why does text from a PDF paste with broken lines?
PDFs store hard line breaks at the page's wrap points โ they're real characters, not layout โ so the paste faithfully reproduces the jagged column. Unwrapping them is exactly this tool's job.
What happens to hyphenated words split across lines?
Rejoined automatically: 'exam- ple' becomes 'example'. Genuine hyphenated compounds inside a line are left alone.
Is my text uploaded?
No โ everything runs in your browser, free forever, no account. Paste confidential documents without a second thought.