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Remove Line Breaks

Remove line breaks and carriage returns from text. Options to replace with space or nothing.

Remove Line BreaksGratisText UtilitiesRuns in your browser

Works in your browser. What you paste or upload is processed on your device.

Key features of the line break remover

  • Removes all line breaks to produce single-line text
  • Option to merge lines into paragraphs (double-break aware)
  • Removes excessive whitespace between words
  • Handles both Unix (LF) and Windows (CRLF) line endings
  • One-click copy of cleaned text

How to use the line break remover

  1. Paste your text

    Enter the text with unwanted line breaks into the input area.

  2. Choose mode

    Select 'Remove all line breaks' or 'Remove only single line breaks (keep paragraphs)'.

  3. Process the text

    Click 'Remove Line Breaks' to clean the text.

  4. Review the output

    Check that the cleaned text reads naturally and no content was lost.

  5. Copy the result

    Copy the clean, continuous text for use in your document or tool.

What is a line break remover?

The Remove Line Breaks tool strips newline characters, carriage returns, and extra whitespace from text, converting multi-line text into a single continuous line or cleaning up irregular spacing. It's useful for processing pasted text from PDFs, spreadsheets, emails, or any source that introduces unwanted line breaks.

Text copied from PDFs, emails, or web pages often contains unexpected line breaks that break the flow when pasted into new documents. This tool cleans those breaks instantly, producing clean, continuous text ready for use anywhere.

Why use a line break remover?

Pasting text from PDFs or emails into documents or tools frequently introduces unwanted line breaks mid-sentence. Manually removing them is tedious. This tool fixes the problem instantly, saving time when processing any text that has been copied from sources with different line break conventions.

Line break remover: frequently asked questions

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Why does pasted text from PDF have random line breaks?

PDFs store text with line breaks at each visible line ending. When copied and pasted, these page-layout line breaks appear in the text even though they don't represent paragraph breaks.

What is the difference between LF and CRLF?

LF (\n) is the Unix/Mac line ending. CRLF (\r\n) is the Windows line ending. Both are treated as line breaks by this tool and removed equally.

Can I keep paragraph breaks while removing single line breaks?

Yes. The 'keep paragraphs' mode removes single line breaks (from PDF columns or email formatting) but preserves double line breaks that represent actual paragraph divisions.

Will this remove spaces between words?

The basic mode removes line breaks and normalises whitespace. It does not remove single spaces between words. Multiple spaces between words are reduced to a single space.

Can I use this to join lines for CSV or data processing?

Yes. Removing line breaks is a common data processing step when preparing text for import into spreadsheets, databases, or APIs that expect single-line input.

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