Remove Line Breaks & Extra Spaces

Text copied from a PDF, a terminal or an old email carries a line break at the end of every printed line. “Paragraphs” treats a blank line as the real paragraph boundary and joins everything between blank lines into one line with single spaces — the usual fix. “Every line break” turns the whole text into one line, for pasting into a single field. “Blank lines only” leaves the wrapping alone and just removes empty lines, for lists and code-like text.

End-of-line hyphenation — a lowercase letter, a hyphen, a break, a lowercase letter — is rejoined into one word (“infor-” + “mation”); a word that was genuinely hyphenated across the break would be joined too, so the count is shown and the option can be turned off. Runs of two or more spaces, tabs or non-breaking spaces collapse to one; leading and trailing whitespace on each line is trimmed. Windows line endings are handled. Every change is counted in the result so a large paste can be checked at a glance.

The page cannot tell a poem's line breaks from a PDF's, and paragraphs that are not separated by a blank line will be joined together in Paragraph mode — the page says so when it finds nothing to join. Nothing leaves the browser; the same four anonymous usage counts as the rest of the site apply.