deftivo

Remove Line Breaks & Extra Spaces

Fix text copied from PDFs: join broken lines, keep paragraphs, and clean up spaces and duplicates.

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Text copied from a PDF usually arrives with a line break at the end of every line, so it looks broken when you paste it into an email, a document or a form. This tool joins those lines back into proper sentences.

Paragraph breaks can be kept, repeated spaces collapsed, and empty or duplicate lines removed. The result updates as you type and can be copied with one click.

How to use

  1. Paste your text into the left box.
  2. Tick the clean-up options you want.
  3. Copy the cleaned text from the right box.

Why use Deftivo

Made for PDF text

Joins broken lines and even re-joins English words split with a hyphen at the end of a line.

Paragraphs survive

With “Keep paragraph breaks” on, only the line breaks inside paragraphs are removed.

Private

Your text is processed in the browser and never uploaded.

Frequently asked questions

Why does text from a PDF have so many line breaks?

PDFs store text line by line as it appears on the page, so copying keeps a break at the end of every visual line.

How do I turn everything into a single line?

Tick “Remove line breaks” and untick “Keep paragraph breaks”.

Is there a length limit?

No fixed limit. Very long texts depend on your device, but books-length chapters work fine on a computer.

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