Is this the same as the clean formatting tool?

No. This one focuses on line breaks and lets you choose the separator. The clean formatting tool joins paragraph lines too, but also handles invisible characters, curly quotes and bullets.

Are blank lines deleted?

Yes, unless you keep the paragraphs. In that case, blank lines between paragraphs stay.

Can I do the opposite, break a text into lines?

Yes, with the list to comma-separated text tool: it turns comma-separated text into a list, one item per line.

Is the text sent to a server?

No. Everything happens in your browser.

Remove line breaks from text

Updated on October 30, 2026

Paste a text with too many line breaks and join everything into one line, using a space, comma or another separator. You can keep paragraphs apart and only join the lines inside each one, which fixes text copied from a PDF. Your text never leaves your browser.

Your text

Options

Join the lines with

Keep paragraphs apart (blank lines)Trim spaces at the start and end of each line

Result

Line breaks removed: 0

The text is processed in your browser and is not sent anywhere.

How to use it

Paste the text in the first box.
Under "Join the lines with", choose the separator: space (the most common), comma, semicolon, vertical bar or nothing.
Tick "Keep paragraphs apart" if the text has paragraphs separated by blank lines and you want to preserve them.
Copy the result. The summary shows how many line breaks were removed.

When this helps

Text copied from a PDF, where each line ends where the page line ended, even in the middle of a sentence.
Forwarded emails, where each line was broken by the email program.
A list of items, one per line, that has to become a single line to paste into a form field, a search or a spreadsheet.
Keywords, codes or numbers that come in a column and need to be separated by commas.
Text that will be pasted into fields that do not accept several lines, such as a username, a title or a short message.

With or without paragraphs

Without the keep paragraphs option, the whole text becomes a single line, and blank lines disappear. With the option on, a blank line still separates each paragraph, and only the lines inside each paragraph are joined. It is the right choice for PDF text with several paragraphs.

If your PDF text has words cut with a hyphen at the end of a line ("dis-" on one line and "tant" on the next), use the clean formatting tool, which also puts those words back together.

Choosing the separator

Space: the default for running text. Lines become continuous sentences.
Comma and space: good for lists ("apple, banana, orange").
Semicolon: used when the items themselves contain commas.
Vertical bar: useful to separate fields visibly.
Nothing: glues the lines together without a space, to join parts of a code or a number that was broken across several lines.

Frequently asked questions

Is this the same as the clean formatting tool?: No. This one focuses on line breaks and lets you choose the separator. The clean formatting tool joins paragraph lines too, but also handles invisible characters, curly quotes and bullets.
Are blank lines deleted?: Yes, unless you keep the paragraphs. In that case, blank lines between paragraphs stay.
Can I do the opposite, break a text into lines?: Yes, with the list to comma-separated text tool: it turns comma-separated text into a list, one item per line.
Is the text sent to a server?: No. Everything happens in your browser.