Whitespace Remover & Text Cleaner

Invisible whitespace characters cause subtle bugs, formatting issues, and data inconsistencies. Extra spaces break string comparisons, trailing whitespace triggers linter warnings, and inconsistent line endings cause merge conflicts in version control. Pasting text from PDFs, emails, or web pages often introduces irregular spacing that's tedious to fix by hand.

A dedicated whitespace cleaner lets you see exactly what's wrong and fix it in one click, saving time and preventing errors in code, data files, and written content.

The most common whitespace characters are space (U+0020), tab (U+0009), line feed (U+000A), and carriage return (U+000D). But Unicode defines many more: non-breaking space (U+00A0), em space (U+2003), zero-width space (U+200B), and others. Different operating systems use different line endings — Unix uses LF (\n), Windows uses CRLF (\r\n), and classic Mac used CR (\r).

This tool normalizes all of these, handling the full range of whitespace types that JavaScript's \s regex class recognizes.

Copied text from PDFs often contains double spaces, stray line breaks in the middle of sentences, and inconsistent indentation. Spreadsheet exports may have trailing tabs. HTML content pasted as plain text retains excessive spacing. Chat and email messages introduce trailing whitespace on every line.

In programming, mixed tabs and spaces cause indentation errors. Trailing whitespace inflates diffs in Git. Empty lines between data records break parsers expecting contiguous input. This tool addresses all of these scenarios with targeted cleaning operations.

For writers and editors: paste draft text and run Smart Clean to normalize spacing before editing. For developers: clean up config files, CSV data, or log outputs before processing. For data entry: normalize pasted content before inserting into databases or spreadsheets.

The live preview mode lets you see changes as you toggle options, making it easy to find the right combination of cleanings. The character count diff gives you confidence that only whitespace was affected, with no content changes.