Whitespace Remover
Clean up messy text by removing extra spaces, blank lines, tabs, and trailing whitespace. Select the cleaning options you need and apply them all at once. Free, private, and runs entirely in your browser.
What is a Whitespace Remover?
A whitespace remover is a text cleaning tool that strips unnecessary spaces, tabs, blank lines, and other invisible characters from your text. Whitespace issues are one of the most common problems when copying text between applications, pasting from PDFs, or working with data exported from spreadsheets. Extra spaces can break code formatting, cause issues with CSV imports, and make documents look unprofessional.
When to Use This Tool
Use the Whitespace Remover when cleaning up text copied from websites, PDFs, or emails that contains extra spaces and blank lines. It is particularly useful for developers who need to normalise indentation, convert tabs to spaces (or vice versa), and strip trailing whitespace before committing code. Content writers can use it to clean up pasted text before publishing, and data analysts can use it to prepare text data for processing. You can combine multiple cleaning options to apply them all in a single pass.
Types of Whitespace
Whitespace includes regular spaces, tab characters, newlines (line feeds), carriage returns, and other Unicode space characters. Windows and Unix systems use different line endings (CRLF vs LF), which can cause compatibility issues when sharing files between operating systems. Our "Normalise Line Endings" option converts all line endings to the Unix standard (LF), which is the most widely compatible format for web content, code, and modern text editors.