Remove Extra Spaces

Text pasted from PDFs, web pages, spreadsheets or chat apps often hides double spaces, stray tabs, no-break spaces, invisible zero-width characters and piles of empty lines. This cleaner fixes all of them in one pass while leaving your words alone. You choose exactly what to tidy, or strip every space when you need a compact string such as a code or an ID.

How to use this tool

1. Paste the text.
2. Keep “Tidy spacing” and tick the clean-ups you want; the defaults suit most text.
3. Choose how to handle tabs and empty lines.
4. Copy the cleaned text; the note under it says how many characters were removed.

Formula

Tidy = Unicode spaces → space, then runs of spaces (and tabs) → one space, then trim each line, then limit empty lines

Unicode spaces covered are the no-break space U+00A0, the En/Em/thin/hair spaces U+2000–U+200A, the narrow no-break space U+202F, the medium mathematical space U+205F, the Ogham space U+1680 and the ideographic space U+3000. Zero-width spaces U+200B, word joiners U+2060 and byte-order marks U+FEFF are removed; zero-width joiners are kept because emoji such as 👩‍💻 need them. “Remove all whitespace” also deletes line breaks.

Example

The sample’s first line “ This text has too many spaces , and a no-break space. ” becomes This text has too many spaces , and a no-break space., the three empty lines shrink to one, and the last line becomes Tabs and indents are cleaned too !. Ticking “Remove spaces before punctuation” also fixes “spaces ,” and “too !”.