Remove Line Breaks
100% PrivateText & Writing ToolsJoin hard-wrapped lines from PDFs and emails back into flowing paragraphs.
Runs entirely in your browser. Your input is not uploaded to Ovatly or anywhere else.
- 1Paste the wrapped text in the box.
- 2Choose whether paragraph breaks stay or everything joins into one paragraph.
- 3Read the flowing text in the result box.
- 4Copy or download it for your document or editor.
Input: Line one line two New para With "Keep paragraphs" chosen, the result is: Line one line two New para With "Join everything", the result is one line: Line one line two New para
- Hyphenated words split across lines (for example "inter-" at a line end) are joined with the hyphen kept; removing it is a job for Find and Replace.
- Extra spaces left by the original wrapping are collapsed to single spaces.
- Leading and trailing blank areas of the pasted text are trimmed in the result.
A blank line between two blocks of text. Single line breaks inside a block are treated as wrapping and removed.
About this tool
Remove Line Breaks turns hard-wrapped text, the kind you get when copying from PDFs, emails and old documents, into flowing paragraphs. You can keep real paragraph breaks (the blank lines) while joining the wrapped lines inside each paragraph, or join everything into one block.
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