Remove Line Breaks — Free Line Break Remover Online

Unwanted line breaks are a common nuisance when copying text from PDFs, emails, word processors or web pages. Sentences wrapped in the middle or hyphenated across lines make content hard to read and waste time when editing. Our free line break remover quickly and reliably joins broken lines into smooth paragraphs. Whether you need to remove line breaks from research articles, blog posts, or notes, this tool gives you clean text instantly — no signup required.

Why removing line breaks matters

When text is copied from fixed-layout formats like PDFs, it's often wrapped at an arbitrary column width. That results in single line breaks inside sentences and unrelated line endings between clauses. Left as-is, these break the natural flow of content and can cause issues with readability, formatting, and downstream processing. Removing these breaks restores the intended paragraph flow and makes the text ready for editing or publication.

For writers, editors, and researchers, cleaning line breaks saves hours of manual work. For publishers and content managers, it avoids publishing content with awkward line wraps that disrupt the reader’s experience. For students and professionals who frequently extract text from PDFs, a reliable line break remover is an essential productivity tool.

Core features of this line remover

• Join wrapped lines: Convert single newlines inside paragraphs into spaces to produce continuous sentences.
• Preserve paragraphs: Optionally keep double newlines as paragraph separators to maintain structure.
• Fix hyphenation: Rejoin words that were split at line ends with hyphens.
• Trim spaces: Remove extra spaces introduced during copy-paste operations.
• Client-side processing: All work is done in your browser — no server uploads required by default.

How the tool works (simple explanation)

The Remove Line Breaks tool follows a few straightforward steps when you click the button: normalize line endings, split the text into paragraphs if you choose to preserve blank lines, optionally remove hyphenation markers, replace single newlines with spaces, and collapse extra whitespace. The result is a clean block of text where sentences and paragraphs flow naturally.

How to use — step by step

1. Paste the copied text into the Input Text area. You can paste content from PDFs, emails, Word documents, or web pages.
2. Options: Check Preserve blank lines to retain paragraph breaks, enable Join hyphen to fix split words, and use Trim excessive spaces to clean up spacing.
3. Click Remove Line Breaks. The cleaned text appears in the result area.
4. Copy or download the result. Use Select All or Copy Result to paste into your editor, or download as a .txt file for later use.

Real-world examples

Imagine you copied a paragraph from a PDF and it looks like this:

This is a long paragraph copied from a PDF where the line
break occurs in the middle of a sentence. The next line is
still part of the same paragraph but appears as a new line.

Best practices

• If your source uses blank lines between paragraphs, keep Preserve blank lines enabled to avoid merging paragraphs unintentionally.
• Use Join hyphen if the source text shows words split by hyphens at line ends.
• Always review the cleaned text briefly — automatic tools are highly reliable but may need small manual corrections for special cases like bullet lists or poetry.

Privacy & security

The tool performs processing in your browser by default, which means your text is not uploaded to our servers. If you use any server-side export or batch processing options we provide, those features will disclose their behavior before uploading content. We recommend using the client-side options for sensitive material.