Remove Extra Spaces

This tool offers three modes to handle unwanted spaces. Collapse mode reduces multiple consecutive spaces to a single space, which is the most common need. Remove all mode strips every space from the text entirely, useful for creating compact identifiers or cleaning specific data formats. Trim mode removes leading and trailing spaces from each line while leaving internal spacing intact.

Extra spaces commonly appear when copying text from websites, PDFs, or OCR output. HTML rendering collapses visible whitespace, so when you copy formatted web content you often get irregular spacing in the plain text. Pasting from Word documents, email clients, and scanned documents produces similar problems.

Collapse is the right choice for most text cleanup: emails, documents, pasted content, and anywhere you want normal single-spaced text. It fixes double spaces after full stops, irregular gaps from copy-paste, and any other multiple-space sequences without affecting the text structure.

Remove all is useful when spaces should not exist at all, such as cleaning up phone numbers, removing spaces from code identifiers, or stripping whitespace from data fields. Trim is ideal for cleaning up lists and tabular data where internal spacing is intentional but leading and trailing whitespace needs to go.