Remove Extra Spaces

About this calculator

This tool cleans up messy whitespace in a block of text by collapsing any run of repeated spaces or tabs down to a single space and trimming leading and trailing whitespace from each line, without touching the actual words or line breaks.

It is used to fix text that picked up extra spacing from copy-pasting out of a PDF, a formatted email, or an old document with inconsistent tabs, and by writers, developers and data-entry workers who need clean, normalized text before pasting it into a form, a spreadsheet cell, or code where stray whitespace can cause formatting or parsing problems.