Remove Extra Spaces

Collapses runs of spaces and tabs within each line down to a single space, while leaving line breaks and blank lines exactly as they were.

Paste text with irregular spacing into the box. The cleaned result appears immediately below, ready to copy with one click.

Pasting " Hello world,\t\tthis is a test. \n\n Second line here. " produces "Hello world, this is a test.\n\nSecond line here." — every run of spaces or tabs becomes one space, and the stray spaces right next to each line break are trimmed away.

The cleanup targets the plain ASCII space and tab characters specifically — runs of one or more are replaced with a single space. Line breaks themselves are matched separately, so a space or tab sitting directly before or after a newline is removed rather than collapsed into one.

Blank lines are preserved exactly as-is: three consecutive newlines in the input stay three consecutive newlines in the output, since only single line breaks are touched by the cleanup pattern, not runs of them. The entire result is trimmed of leading and trailing whitespace, but nothing in the middle beyond spaces and tabs is altered.

Other whitespace-like characters — such as non-breaking spaces (\u00A0), full-width spaces, or zero-width characters copied from PDFs and web pages — aren't recognized as spaces by this pattern and pass through unchanged. If you need to strip blank lines entirely rather than just tidy spacing, use a dedicated empty-line remover instead.

The cleanup runs entirely in your browser with a simple regular expression. Nothing you paste is uploaded or stored.