Remove Line Breaks

How It Works

When you copy text from a PDF, an email client, or a word processor, the result often contains hard line breaks at every line wrap. These breaks look fine in the source document but create broken, ragged paragraphs when pasted elsewhere. This tool gives you three ways to handle them.

Mode 1 — Replace with space:
Every line break (\n, \r\n, or \r) is replaced by a single space. Multiple consecutive breaks are also collapsed to one space. This is the most common option when you have a single column of text that has been artificially broken at 60–80 characters.

Example input:
"The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy
dog."

Result: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

Mode 2 — Keep paragraph breaks:
Sequences of two or more line breaks are treated as a paragraph boundary and collapsed to a single blank line. Single line breaks within a paragraph are replaced by a space. This preserves the document's paragraph structure while removing the mid-paragraph wrapping.

This mode is useful for articles, emails, and blog posts that have both hard-wrapped lines and deliberate blank lines between sections.

Mode 3 — Remove all:
Every line break is deleted with no replacement character. Words that were separated only by a line break will run together, so use this mode when you know there is always punctuation or a space before each break, or when you want to join lines in a code or data context.

You can also enter a custom replacement character in the text field — for example a pipe "|", a tab, or a semicolon — to join lines with that separator instead.