Remove Line Breaks

Remove line breaks from text copied out of PDFs, emails and websites. Join the lines into clean paragraphs (keeping the gaps between them), or remove every break, and fix words that were hyphenated across two lines.

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How to use the Remove Line Breaks

1Paste the text with unwanted line breaks.
2Choose “Remove, keep paragraphs” to keep the gaps between paragraphs, or remove every break.
3Copy the cleaned text.

What is the Remove Line Breaks?

PDFs store text line by line, so copying from one adds a hard line break at the end of every line. Pasted into an email or form, that leaves ragged, broken sentences. Joining the lines with a space restores normal paragraphs.

“Remove, keep paragraphs” treats a blank line as the end of a paragraph and keeps it, while joining the lines inside each paragraph. “Join words hyphenated across lines” turns “infor-” + “mation” back into “information” when the next line starts with a lowercase letter. When it starts with a capital or a digit, as in “Jean-” + “Luc”, the hyphen is kept and the words are joined as “Jean-Luc”. A real compound split at its hyphen, such as “well-” + “known”, becomes “wellknown”, so give the result a quick read.

Frequently asked questions

Does it handle Windows line breaks?

Yes. Windows (CRLF), Mac and Unix (LF) line breaks and Unicode line separators are all handled.

How do I remove only the blank lines?

Use Remove Empty Lines — it deletes blank lines but keeps every other line break.

Is the Remove Line Breaks free and private?

Yes. The Remove Line Breaks is free, needs no account, and runs entirely in your browser. What you type is never sent to a server or stored.

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