Remove Line Breaks from Text - Free Online Tool

How the Line Break Remover Works

1. 01Paste text with unwanted line breaks, for example copied from a PDF.
2. 02Choose how lines are joined: with a space, no separator, or a custom string.
3. 03Optionally keep paragraph breaks so double line breaks survive.
4. 04Copy the joined result with one click.

Reflowing Broken Text Cleanly

Text copied from PDFs, emails, and terminal output often arrives with a hard line break every 70 or 80 characters, a relic of fixed-width formatting. Joining with a space is the right choice for prose: each break becomes a single space and sentences flow naturally again. The no separator option suits languages and content where breaks fall mid-word or where you are reassembling a string that was split arbitrarily, such as a long URL or a base64 blob spread over several lines. The custom separator unlocks data tasks: join with a comma and space to turn a column into an inline list, with a semicolon for European CSV conventions, or with a pipe for quick table building. The keep paragraph breaks option is the difference between a readable document and a wall of text. It treats one line break as an artifact to remove but two or more consecutive breaks as a genuine paragraph boundary to preserve. That matches how most documents encode structure. The tool also trims each line and drops empty ones during joining, so you never end up with double spaces where a break used to be.

When to Use Line Break Removal

Use it whenever text arrives chopped into fixed-width lines: PDF copies, plain text emails, subtitle files, terminal output, and code comments being converted to documentation. It is equally useful in the data direction, turning a vertical column of values into a single delimited line for spreadsheets, configuration files, or function arguments. If your text also contains stray formatting like doubled spaces or smart quotes, a full cleaning pass afterwards gives the best result.

Common Use Cases

• ·Fix text copied from a PDF where every sentence is chopped into short lines.
• ·Convert a column of email addresses into a comma separated recipient list.
• ·Reassemble a long URL or token that arrived split across several lines.
• ·Run the result through a full cleanup afterwards for perfect text. → Text Cleaner

Expert Tips

• ✻Always enable keep paragraph breaks for articles and essays; disable it only for single-paragraph fragments.
• ✻Use the no separator mode for URLs and encoded strings where a space would corrupt the value.
• ✻For European CSV data, join with a semicolon since many locales use the comma as decimal separator.

Frequently Asked Questions