Remove line breaks from text

Clean up unwanted line breaks from PDFs, emails, and copied text instantly.

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Why copied text has unwanted line breaks

When you copy text from a PDF, every line ends exactly where it did on the printed page — not where the sentence ends. Paste that into an email or document and every line wraps at an arbitrary point, breaking the flow of your paragraphs. The same thing happens with text copied from older websites, ebooks, and certain email clients that format messages with hard line breaks at 72 characters.

This tool gives you three ways to handle it. Remove all breaks collapses everything into one continuous block of text — useful when you want to reformat from scratch. Keep paragraphs removes the line breaks inside paragraphs while preserving the blank lines between them — useful when the structure is right but the internal wrapping is broken. Replace with space converts each line break into a space — useful when the line breaks are mid-sentence and you want smooth reading without losing any structure.

The PDF copy problem

PDFs are the biggest source of unwanted line breaks. Unlike a Word document where text flows freely, a PDF is essentially a picture of a page — every line is a fixed object positioned at exact coordinates. When you copy from a PDF, your clipboard captures each line as a separate unit with a hard return at the end. The result in any text editor looks like a poem when it should look like prose. This tool fixes that in one click.