Line Break Remover

What this tool does

When you copy text out of a PDF, an email, or a narrow column, every visual line often ends with a hard line break. Paste it somewhere wider and the text stays broken into short ragged lines. This tool joins those lines back together, so the text flows naturally again — while giving you the choice to keep the breaks that actually separate paragraphs.

How to use it

1. Paste the broken text.
2. Choose what should replace each line break — usually a space for flowing prose, or a comma to turn a column into a list.
3. Keep Keep the breaks between paragraphs on so blank-line paragraph separation survives.
4. Copy the joined result.

How the joining works

The tool distinguishes between two kinds of break. A single line break inside a block of text is usually accidental — a hard wrap from the source — and is the thing you want to remove. A blank line between blocks is deliberate paragraph separation.

With Keep the breaks between paragraphs on, the text is split into paragraphs at blank lines, the single breaks inside each paragraph are replaced with your chosen separator, and the paragraphs are rejoined with blank lines between them. With the option off, every line break is replaced, producing a single continuous line or list.

The separator choices cover the common cases: a space for reflowing prose, a comma and space for building a comma-separated list, nothing for joining fragments directly, or any custom string you type — a pipe, a semicolon, or a tab. The Trim spaces option cleans each line before joining, so you do not end up with double spaces where a line had trailing whitespace.

Examples

Text copied from a PDF often looks like this:

The annual report shows steady
growth across all regions, with
the strongest results in Asia.

Joined with a space it becomes one clean sentence: The annual report shows steady growth across all regions, with the strongest results in Asia.

Turning a column into a list: paste a list of names, one per line, choose the comma separator, and get Alice, Bob, Carol, Dave ready to drop into a sentence or a spreadsheet cell.

Common use cases

• Reflowing PDF text that was copied with hard line breaks.
• Turning a column into a comma-separated list for a form field or a query.
• Un-wrapping quoted email text full of forced breaks.
• Building a single-line value from multi-line input.
• Joining fragments with a custom delimiter for import into another system.

If your text also has blank lines you want gone, run it through Remove Empty Lines first, or clean stray spacing with the Whitespace Remover.

Privacy and security

Joining happens in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Your options are saved locally. See the privacy policy.