Remove Line Breaks

Paste text with line breaks — copied from a PDF, a scanned document, or a poorly formatted email — and join it into one clean paragraph or a single space- or comma-separated line.

Paste text with line breaks

Join lines with

Result (line breaks removed)

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Why use Remove Line Breaks?

Text copied from a PDF, a scanned document, or certain email clients often carries a line break at every point the original visually wrapped, not at actual paragraph boundaries — which turns a clean paragraph into a jumble of short, disconnected lines the moment you paste it somewhere else. This joins those lines back together, trimming stray whitespace from each one first so gaps and inconsistent spacing don't carry over into the result. The comma-join option handles a different but related case: turning a pasted list (one item per line, like a spreadsheet column) into a single readable sentence.

Key benefits

Instant, no install required
Two join modes for different use cases
Trims stray whitespace from each line automatically
Free, runs in your browser

Features

Space-joined output for paragraph cleanup
Comma-joined output for turning a list into a sentence
Automatic per-line whitespace trimming

Popular use cases

Cleaning up text copied from a PDF where every line break became a paragraph break
Turning a list pasted from a spreadsheet into a comma-separated sentence
Fixing text pasted from an email client that hard-wraps every line
Preparing text for a system that treats every line break as a new paragraph

How to use Remove Line Breaks

1
Paste your text
Text with line breaks you want removed.
2
Pick a join method
A single space, or comma + space.
3
Copy the result
One clean line or paragraph, ready to paste.

Frequently asked questions

Why does copying from a PDF add extra line breaks?

PDFs store text position by position rather than as flowing paragraphs, so copying often inserts a line break wherever a line visually wrapped in the original document, even mid-sentence.

What's the difference between the two join options?

Space-joining reconstructs a normal paragraph from wrapped lines. Comma-joining is for turning a line-per-item list (like a column pasted from a spreadsheet) into a single comma-separated sentence.

Does this remove blank lines too?

Yes — empty lines are dropped so the result doesn't end up with extra gaps between joined text.

Last reviewed: September 2026

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