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Text Cleaner

Remove line breaks, delete duplicate lines, strip empty lines, collapse spaces and sort — all in your browser.

What is a text cleaner?

Copying text from a PDF, an email or a web page often drags along stray line breaks, empty lines, duplicate rows and messy spacing. This text cleaner fixes all of that at once with a set of checkboxes — results update instantly and everything runs locally in your browser, with no upload.

What it can do

  • Remove line breaks: reflow a hard-wrapped paragraph back into one block.
  • Remove duplicate lines: de-duplicate a list while keeping order.
  • Delete empty lines and collapse extra spaces.
  • Sort: A→Z, Z→A, or reverse the line order.

Common use cases

  • Restore a paragraph that was hard-wrapped when copied from a PDF.
  • Tidy up lists, keywords or email addresses and remove duplicates.
  • Strip the extra spaces and blank lines left over when pasting code or data.
  • Need a word count? Pair it with the word counter; to change capitalization use the case converter.

Two lines look identical — why weren't they de-duplicated?

When you copy a list out of a PDF, an email or a web page, lines often carry invisible trailing spaces or tabs, so two rows that look identical aren't equal to the computer and slip past de-duplication. The fix is to tick "trim each line" before removing duplicates — then it comes out clean. Another common case is restoring a paragraph that a PDF hard-wrapped: choose "remove line breaks (join with a space)", not "join directly," or the words run together. Need the length afterwards? Pair it with the word counter.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is my text uploaded?

No. All cleaning runs locally in your browser with JavaScript, in real time. The text you paste is never sent to a server or stored.

How does "remove line breaks" join the text?

You choose the output: keep line breaks, join every line with a space (great for reflowing a paragraph that was hard-wrapped into many lines), or join with nothing so lines run together.

Does removing duplicate lines keep the order?

Yes. By default it keeps the first occurrence of each line and drops later repeats, preserving the original order. You can also combine it with sorting.

Do the options interfere with each other?

They apply in a fixed order: trim each line, collapse spaces, drop empty lines, remove duplicates, then sort, and finally join line breaks by your choice — so "dedupe + sort" works together cleanly.

Related reading

How to Remove Line Breaks, Duplicate Lines and Empty Lines from Text →

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