Remove Line Breaks

Strip line breaks to join text into one block.

Replace with

Keep paragraph breaks

Input

Output

Lines: 0Characters: 0

Joining wrapped text

Text copied from PDFs, emails, and terminals often arrives with a hard line break at the end of every line, which breaks reflow when you paste it elsewhere. This tool removes those breaks — replacing them with a space or nothing — while optionally preserving blank lines between paragraphs so structure isn't lost. Redundant spaces are collapsed too. It all runs in your browser.

Built and maintained by Meet Shah · Last updated 5 August 2026

What this tool is used for

Joining a paragraph that was hard-wrapped by an email client.
Turning a multi-line value into a single line for a field that requires it.
Cleaning text pasted from a PDF where every line broke mid-sentence.
Producing a one-line string for a config or a CSV cell.
Collapsing a block into one line before hashing or comparing it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Should breaks become spaces or nothing?: Spaces, in almost every case. Removing them outright joins the last and first words of adjacent lines into one — 'hello' and 'world' become 'helloworld'. Only hyphenated line breaks in scanned text want direct joining.
How do I keep paragraphs intact?: Treat a blank line (two consecutive breaks) as a paragraph boundary and collapse only single breaks. Removing all breaks turns a structured document into one continuous block, which is rarely what is wanted.
What are the different line-ending types?: LF (\n) on Unix and macOS, CRLF (\r\n) on Windows, and bare CR (\r) on classic Mac OS. Removal must handle all three, or CRLF files leave stray \r characters that show as ^M or as invisible corruption.
Why does text pasted from a PDF break oddly?: Because a PDF has no concept of a paragraph — it positions text runs on a page. Extraction inserts a break at every visual line end, so joining them back into paragraphs is exactly what this operation is for.
What about soft versus hard wraps?: A soft wrap is the editor displaying a long line across several rows with no character stored; a hard wrap is a real newline in the file. Only hard wraps can be removed — soft ones do not exist in the data.
How do I rejoin a paragraph broken at a fixed width?: Replace single breaks with a space while keeping double breaks, since a blank line marks a real paragraph boundary. That distinction is what separates unwrapping from destroying the structure.
What is a line separator character?: U+2028 and U+2029 — genuine Unicode line and paragraph separators that most tools ignore, so text can still break in a browser after every `\n` and `\r` has been removed.

Common errors and gotchas

Joining without inserting a space, which runs the last and first words together.
Removing paragraph breaks along with line breaks, which loses the structure entirely.
Joining lines in code, which changes meaning or breaks it outright.
Overlooking a mixture of CRLF and LF, so some breaks survive.
Joining a hyphenated word split across lines and leaving the hyphen in the middle.