Remove Line Breaks and Clean Up Text

How to use Line Break Remover

1. 1
   Paste the broken text. Straight from the PDF, email or terminal.
2. 2
   Choose how to treat breaks. Unwrap keeps paragraphs; remove-all produces a single block.
3. 3
   Copy the cleaned text. Quote markers and repeated spaces are handled too.

About removing line breaks from text

Text copied out of a PDF arrives broken because of how the format works. A PDF is a description of where marks appear on a page, not a document with a structure — it records that a line of text sits at a particular position, and nothing about whether that line is the middle of a sentence or the end of a paragraph. When you copy, you get the visual layout faithfully reproduced, which means a break at the end of every printed line. Email clients produce a similar problem for a different reason. Plain-text mail is traditionally wrapped at around seventy-six characters, so a forwarded message arrives pre-broken, often with quote markers accumulated at the start of each line from several rounds of replying. The repair is the same in both cases. Treat a blank line as a genuine paragraph break and preserve it; treat a single line break as an artefact of wrapping and join across it. That heuristic handles the overwhelming majority of real text correctly, and it is why an unwrap that simply deletes every newline is the wrong tool — it produces one enormous paragraph and destroys the structure that did survive. Two details make a visible difference to the result. Words split across lines with a hyphen need rejoining without it, which is common in justified PDF text. And trailing spaces left at the end of each original line become doubled spaces mid-sentence once the lines are joined, so collapsing repeated spaces belongs in the same pass rather than as an afterthought.

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