Remove Line Breaks
Remove line breaks from text: replace with spaces, drop entirely, swap for a custom separator, or just clear blank lines. Browser-based.
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What is the Remove Line Breaks?
A line-break remover joins multi-line text into a single block, optionally with a separator between the pieces. The classic case is text copied from a PDF where every visual line ended with a hard newline that breaks the prose. Switching the newlines to spaces gives you flowing paragraphs again.
How to use the Remove Line Breaks
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Paste the broken-up text
Drop the source into the input pane. PDF copies, email forwards, OCR output all qualify.
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Pick what to replace newlines with
Space joins lines into running prose. Nothing concatenates them with no separator. Custom lets you type any string (a comma, a semicolon, your own delimiter).
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Or remove only the empty lines
Toggle "Remove empty lines only" to compact the document by dropping blank lines while keeping the meaningful breaks intact.
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Copy the cleaned text
The result appears in the output pane, ready to copy.
Frequently Asked Questions
What replacement options are there?
Three: replace each newline with a single space (joins lines into prose), remove without replacement (concatenates everything), or replace with a custom string you type in. Use the custom mode for CSV-style joining (comma) or any other delimiter.
Can I remove only empty lines?
Yes. Toggle "Remove empty lines only" and the converter will keep all single newlines (so paragraphs stay separate) but strip out blank lines. Useful for compacting a document without merging the actual line breaks.
Does it handle Windows and Mac line endings?
Yes. CRLF (Windows), LF (Unix and modern macOS), and bare CR (classic Mac) all match. Pasting from any source on any OS works the same way.