Whitespace Cleaner

Frequently asked questions

Where does messy whitespace come from?

Copying from PDFs (line-end spaces and hard wraps), spreadsheets (tab characters between columns), terminal output (padding for alignment) and word processors that indent with spaces. This tool normalizes all of them.

Does it touch anything besides whitespace?

No — letters, numbers and punctuation are untouched. Only spaces, tabs and blank lines are affected, and only for the options you tick.

Can it flatten text to a single line?

Almost — tick "Remove empty lines", then use Find & Replace in regex mode (\n → space) if you also need line breaks gone.