Text Cleaner
Trim, collapse spaces, drop blank lines and dedupe in one pass.
Tidy messy text with one tool: trim each line, collapse multiple spaces, remove blank lines and remove duplicate lines. Mix and match the cleanup steps you need.
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About Text Cleaner
Some text arrives damaged in every way at once: pasted from a PDF with double spaces, indented lines, random blank lines, and repeated entries from a merged export. Fixing each problem with a separate tool means four round trips. This cleaner bundles the four most common repairs, trimming each line, collapsing multiple spaces, removing blank lines, and removing duplicate lines, into one pass, with checkboxes so you pick exactly the steps each job needs.
The steps run in a fixed, sensible order: trim first so stray spaces don't create false differences, then collapse space runs, then drop blank lines, and finally remove duplicates, because dedupe only works reliably on already-normalized text. The tool shows line counts before and after, so you can see at a glance how much changed and confirm the result matches your expectations.
Think of it as the rough-cleaning stage before fine work. It's perfect for normalizing pasted web text, scraped data, and merged lists before they go into a document, spreadsheet, or analysis. For one-off single problems like just extra spaces or just duplicates, the dedicated tools give you finer control. But when the mess is mixed, start here.
How to use Text Cleaner
- Paste the messy text.
- Tick the cleanup steps you want.
- Copy or download the cleaned result.
Why use this tool?
- Four cleanup steps in one pass
- Live preview of the result
- Shows line counts before and after
Tips for best results
- Run the full pipeline on mixed messes; use the single-purpose tools when only one problem exists.
- Steps apply in a fixed order (trim, collapse, blank lines, duplicates) so dedupe sees normalized text.
- Tick only the steps you need, removing blank lines, for instance, is wrong for intentionally spaced prose.
- Check the before/after line counts; an unchanged count tells you the problem is elsewhere.
- For code or markdown, skip aggressive cleaning, indentation and blank lines carry meaning there.