Remove line breaks

1. Paste your text. Put the text in the top box. The lines are joined in the box below straight away.
2. Choose what replaces each break. A space for running text, a comma to turn a list into one line, nothing to glue lines together, or your own text. Keep paragraphs if the blank lines between them matter.
3. Copy the result. Press Copy to put the joined text on your clipboard.

A PDF stores each printed line as its own line of text. When you copy a paragraph out of one, every line ending comes with it, so the paragraph pastes as a narrow column that stops short of the edge. Plain-text emails do the same thing: many mail programs wrap lines at about 72 characters and send the breaks along with the words. Subtitles, terminal output and text scanned with OCR have the same problem.

Removing those breaks gives you sentences that flow again, so the text fits a web form, a document or a chat message.

• Space is right for prose. Each break becomes one space, so the last word of a line does not run into the first word of the next.
• Comma turns a column of items, such as email addresses or product codes, into one line: red, green, blue. Empty lines are skipped, so you never get two commas in a row.
• Nothing glues lines together with no gap. Use it for a long link, a key or a number that was wrapped across lines.
• Custom puts any text you type between the lines, such as a semicolon or a pipe.
• Keep paragraphs treats a blank line as the end of a paragraph. Lines inside a paragraph are joined, and one blank line stays between paragraphs.
• Tidy spaces trims the spaces at the start and end of every line and turns runs of spaces or tabs into one, so the joined text has no double gaps.

Only line breaks and, with Tidy spaces, extra spaces are touched. Words, punctuation and letter case stay as they are. A word that was split with a hyphen at the end of a line, such as exam- then ple, keeps its hyphen, because a hyphen can also be part of the word; check those by eye.

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