Remove Line Breaks

About Remove line breaks

The remove line breaks tool repairs text that was hard-wrapped, most often text copied from a PDF where every line ends in the middle of a sentence. It can rejoin lines inside each paragraph, flatten everything to one line, drop blank lines, or convert between Unix LF and Windows CRLF endings. It serves anyone pasting text into a document, form or chat.

How to use it

1. Paste the text into the Input text box.
2. Pick a Mode: Join paragraphs, Join everything, Remove blank lines, Convert to LF or Convert to CRLF.
3. For the joining modes, set the Join separator using the presets Space, Nothing, Comma and space, Pipe or Tab.
4. Tick Trim whitespace from each line and Collapse repeated spaces if wanted, then copy or download the Output.

Fixing a PDF paste

The report found that adoption of the
new standard has grown, especially
in schools.

Second paragraph starts
here.

The report found that adoption of the new standard has grown, especially in schools.

Second paragraph starts here.

When to use it

• Turning text copied from a PDF or scanned document into flowing paragraphs.
• Flattening a list of lines into one comma-separated line by choosing Join everything with a comma separator.
• Normalizing a file's line endings before it goes to a system that expects LF or CRLF.
• Deleting the empty lines from a pasted email or transcript.

Questions about Remove line breaks

Which mode should I use for PDF text?

Join paragraphs. It merges the wrapped lines inside each paragraph with a space and keeps blank lines as the paragraph breaks, so the structure survives while the artificial line breaks disappear.

What about words split with a hyphen at the end of a line?

They are not repaired. A word broken as infra- then structure is joined as infra- structure, so search for those hyphen and space pairs afterward and fix them.

Does the tool understand old Mac line endings?

Yes. CRLF, LF and lone CR are all recognized, and the page counts how many of each your text contains, which helps when a file mixes styles.

What does Join everything do to paragraphs?

It removes every break, including the blank lines between paragraphs, so the whole text becomes a single line. Choose Join paragraphs instead if you want to keep them.

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