Remove Line Breaks
Text copied out of a PDF or a plain-text email arrives with a hard line break at the end of every visual line, which turns into a mess the moment you paste it somewhere with a different width. This joins those lines back into flowing paragraphs.
How to use it
- Paste the text with unwanted breaks into the box above.
- Tick Keep paragraph breaks if you want blank-line-separated paragraphs preserved — this is usually what you want for prose.
- Click Remove line breaks, then copy the cleaned result.
Why PDF text breaks like this
A PDF does not store paragraphs — it stores the position of every character on a page. When you copy from one, the extractor has to guess where lines end, and it marks every visual line ending as a hard break. The result looks correct in the PDF and wrong everywhere else. The same thing happens with plain-text emails, which historically wrapped at 72 or 78 characters, and with text pasted out of terminal windows.
Keeping paragraphs intact
With Keep paragraph breaks enabled, any blank line is treated as a genuine paragraph boundary and preserved, while single line breaks inside a paragraph are joined. This is almost always the right setting for articles, essays, and book extracts. Turn it off only when you want the entire text collapsed into a single continuous line — useful for pasting into a single-line form field or a CSV cell.