Remove Line Breaks

How to use this tool

1. Paste your text into the Your text box.
2. Pick what each line break becomes under Replace line breaks with, a space, nothing, or a comma and a space.
3. Leave Keep paragraph breaks on if you want blank lines between paragraphs to stay.
4. Tick Also collapse extra spaces to squash any double spaces left behind.
5. The cleaned text appears instantly in the output box, then hit Copy to grab it.

When to remove line breaks

The most common reason is cleaning copied PDF text. A PDF stores a hard line break at the end of every visible line, so when you paste a paragraph it arrives chopped into short, ragged lines. Joining those breaks back together restores a normal flowing paragraph you can edit or quote without odd gaps.

It is just as useful for emails and quoted replies, where forwarded messages often wrap at a fixed width and leave broken lines mid-sentence. The same goes for text pulled from chat logs, code comments, or terminal output. With paragraph breaks kept, your structure survives while the messy in-paragraph wrapping disappears.

Choosing Comma and space instead of a plain space turns a stacked list of lines into a single comma-separated line, which is handy for spreadsheets, search queries, or pasting names into a form. ChoosingNothing joins lines with no gap at all, useful for reassembling a string or a long code or key that was split across lines.

Frequently asked questions

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