Remove Line Breaks

Text copied from a PDF, an old email or a narrow web column often arrives with a hard line break at the end of every line. Paste it here and the tool joins the lines back into normal sentences, while keeping the blank lines between paragraphs so the structure survives.

It can also remove every single line break to make one long line (handy for spreadsheets, form fields and code strings), replace breaks with a comma or your own separator, glue words that were hyphenated at a line end, and squeeze repeated spaces. All of it happens in your browser.

How to use the Remove Line Breaks tool

1. Paste the text with unwanted line breaks into the top box.
2. Choose Keep paragraphs to keep blank-line breaks, or Remove all line breaks.
3. Pick what replaces each break: a space, nothing, a comma or custom text.
4. Leave Remove extra spaces and Join words split with a hyphen on for PDF text.
5. Copy the clean result or download it as a .txt file.

Why use ToolOrca Remove Line Breaks

• Keeps paragraph breaks or removes all
• Replace with space, comma or custom text
• Rejoins words hyphenated across lines
• Removes extra spaces and trims lines
• Handles Windows, Mac and Linux line endings
• No upload, works offline

Why text from PDFs has broken lines

A PDF stores text as positioned lines on a page, not as flowing paragraphs. When you copy it, each visual line usually ends with a real line break, and words that were hyphenated to fit the column keep their hyphen. Pasted into an email or a document, the text looks ragged and will not re-flow when the window size changes.

Keeping paragraph mode treats a blank line as the end of a paragraph and joins everything else. If your PDF has no blank lines between paragraphs, use Remove all line breaks and add the paragraph breaks back by hand.