✂Text Cleaner
Strip formatting, collapse spaces, remove blank lines, and tidy up messy text.
Two strings that look identical and refuse to match are almost always a whitespace problem, and this is the fastest way to find out.
A trailing space. A non-breaking space that renders exactly like a normal one. A tab where the eye sees an indent. Run both strings through here and compare what comes out — it takes ten seconds and saves a genuinely frustrating hour.
What it does
Collapses runs of spaces, removes tabs, trims trailing whitespace, and reduces stacks of blank lines to a single break. Paragraph structure survives; only the excess collapses.
It is deliberately conservative about punctuation. Curly quotes and em dashes are left intact, because those are typographically correct and you usually want them — the exception being code, where a smart quote is a syntax error rather than a style choice.
Where the mess comes from
PDFs, which arrive with line breaks in the middle of sentences because the text was laid out for a page rather than a screen. Word documents, which carry non-breaking spaces and double spaces after full stops. Spreadsheets, which bring tabs where columns used to be.
All of it looks fine in the source and breaks the layout once it lands in a CMS.
Before importing to WordPress
Worth doing. Pasting directly from Word drags hidden formatting into the editor that survives longer than expected and reappears in odd places months later. Running the text through here first strips the whitespace problems before they reach the database.
This tool is provided free of charge for general information and convenience only. It runs in your browser and we do not store the data you enter. We make no guarantee as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability of any result, and accept no liability for any loss, damage, or decision arising from its use — use it at your own risk. See our Terms & Conditions.