Remove duplicate spaces from text
Clean up repeated spaces and tabs in a text, leaving a single space between words. Very useful for text copied from a PDF or Word.
Processed on your device. Nothing is sent to any server.
Replaces any sequence of consecutive spaces or tabs with a single space, without touching line breaks.
Use cases
- Cleaning text pasted from a PDF or Word document.
- Normalizing data before importing it.
- Preparing text for exact comparisons.
How it works
- 1
Paste your text
Type or paste the text with extra spaces on the left.
- 2
Copy the result
The cleaned text appears automatically on the right.
Technical details
- Example: "Hello␣␣␣world" → "Hello world". A tab counts as a space, so "a⇥⇥b" becomes "a b".
- Spaces at the start or end of a line are reduced to one, but not removed entirely.
- The non-breaking space (which sometimes appears when pasting from Word or a web page) isn't a regular space and is left untouched.
Frequently asked questions
Does it also remove line breaks?
No, it only collapses spaces and tabs within a line. Use the dedicated tool to remove line breaks.
Does it help clean up text copied from a PDF?
Partly: it fixes double spaces. If the PDF also breaks sentences across lines, use the remove line breaks tool afterward.