Fix copy-paste text from PDFs
Copy text from a PDF and every line ends with a hard break, often with words split by hyphens (“informa-\ntion”). Pasting that into a document or form looks messy. This tool joins the lines back into sentences while — if you want — keeping the blank lines between paragraphs.
It can also re-join words split across lines and squeeze double spaces. Or replace every line break with a comma to turn a vertical list into a single line.
How to remove line breaks
- 1
Paste the text
From a PDF, email, website or document.
- 2
Choose the replacement
Space (usual), nothing, or a custom separator such as a comma.
- 3
Pick the options
Keep paragraphs, re-join hyphenated words, remove double spaces.
- 4
Copy the clean text
Or download it.
Key features
Paragraph-aware
Blank lines between paragraphs can be preserved.
Hyphen repair
Words split with a hyphen at the line end are rejoined.
Custom joiner
Turn a list into comma-separated values.
Live result
Updates as you change the options.
Common uses
- Students and researchers: Clean quotes copied from PDF papers.
- Office work: Paste tidy text into emails, forms and Word.
- Data prep: Convert line lists into CSV-style single lines.
Tips and good to know
- Turn off “Re-join hyphenated words” if your text contains real hyphenated terms split across lines, such as “well-\nknown”.
- Need the text out of a whole PDF first? Use PDF to Word.