Remove Line Breaks

Text copied from a PDF, an email or a terminal often has a hard line break at the end of every line. Paste it here to join the lines back into flowing paragraphs. Blank lines between paragraphs are kept unless you turn that off.

How to remove line breaks

1. Paste the text with unwanted line breaks.
2. Leave Keep paragraph breaks on to keep blank-line paragraph breaks, or turn it off to put everything on a single line.
3. Copy the result and paste it into your document, form or email.

Why PDFs add line breaks

A PDF stores text as positioned lines, not paragraphs. When you copy from it, each visual line becomes a line of text ending in a line break. Paragraph breaks are usually copied as a blank line, which is why Keep paragraph breaks can rebuild paragraphs correctly: single line breaks are joined with a space, and blank lines stay as paragraph breaks.

Doing it in other apps

• Microsoft Word: Find & Replace with wildcards. Replace ^p^p with a placeholder like ##, then ^p with a space, then ## with ^p.
• VS Code / regex: find (?<!\n)\n(?!\n) and replace with a space. Test it in the regex tester.
• Terminal: tr '\n' ' ' < in.txt joins everything into one line.

Related tools

• Text Cleaner — Remove Extra Spaces & Empty Lines
• Word Counter
• Character Counter
• Remove Duplicate Lines