Remove Line Breaks

Text copied from PDFs, scanned documents, or older word processing files frequently comes with unwanted line breaks in the middle of sentences, a formatting artifact from how those source documents wrapped text at a fixed page width rather than flowing naturally. Pasting that text into a modern document or web form usually looks broken, with sentences awkwardly split across multiple lines instead of flowing as a single paragraph.

This tool strips those unwanted breaks intelligently, distinguishing between line breaks that exist purely for old formatting reasons and genuine paragraph breaks that should stay intact. That distinction matters because a tool that removes every line break indiscriminately would collapse multiple distinct paragraphs into one unreadable block, while this converter preserves the actual paragraph structure your document needs.

Writers, students, and anyone working with content pulled from PDFs or scanned sources run into this formatting issue regularly, especially when repurposing older documents for new digital use. Cleaning the text once with this tool saves the tedious manual process of clicking through a document line by line to manually delete each unwanted break.

Pair this with our Word Counter to check your cleaned text length, use the Grammar Checker afterward for a final polish, or extract text from an image first with the Image to Text tool. For background on text formatting conventions, Wikipedia’s newline page covers how line breaks work across different document formats.