Remove Line Breaks
Strip unwanted line breaks from text copied from PDFs, emails, or Word documents. Choose whether to replace newlines with a space, nothing, or a custom character — and optionally preserve blank lines between paragraphs.
When Do You Need to Remove Line Breaks?
Unwanted line breaks are extremely common when copying text from PDFs, email clients, Word documents, or web pages. The original layout may wrap lines at a fixed column width, leaving your copied text with hard returns after every 60–80 characters.
Cleaning these up by hand is tedious. This tool processes any amount of text instantly — replacing every single newline with a space (or your chosen character) so sentences flow naturally again.
Common Use Cases
- PDF copy-paste cleanup — PDFs often insert line breaks at the end of every visual line, breaking up sentences mid-word.
- Email formatting — Older email clients send plain-text emails with hard line wraps at 72 characters. Removing them makes the text easier to paste into modern editors.
- Data preparation — Before importing text into a database or spreadsheet, joining multi-line values into single-line strings is often required.
- Social media posts — Drafts written in a notes app sometimes have stray line breaks that look odd when pasted into Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook.
- Code comments and documentation — Reformat wrapped comment blocks into single flowing sentences.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does "Preserve paragraph breaks" do?
When this option is on, any blank line in your input is treated as a paragraph separator. Lines within a paragraph are joined together, but the blank lines between paragraphs are kept. This is ideal for cleaning up PDF copy-paste while keeping your paragraph structure intact.
Can I replace newlines with something other than a space?
Yes. Select "Custom character" and type any text into the box — a comma, a pipe character, or even a multi-character string like " | ". The typed value is inserted between every joined line.
Will this remove Windows-style line endings (CRLF)?
Yes. The tool handles both Unix (LF) and Windows (CRLF) line endings automatically, so you do not need to pre-process your text.
