How to Clean Up Messy Text Copied from PDFs

Copying text from a PDF document should be simple, but it rarely is. More often than not, you end up with a wall of text that looks something like this:

This is an example of text copied from a PDF. It has random line breaks and weird spacing.

Fixing this manually—deleting every line break and correcting every extra space—is a tedious and frustrating task, especially for long documents.

Fortunately, there's a much easier way. You can clean up any messy text in seconds using a simple online tool.

The Problem: Why Does Text from PDFs Get So Messy?

PDFs are designed to be a final, "printed" format. They preserve the visual layout of a document perfectly, but they don't always store the underlying text in a logical, flowing order. When you copy text, your computer is often just grabbing chunks of text from where they appear visually on the page, leading to:

Unwanted Line Breaks: Lines break where they do on the page, not at the end of a sentence.
Extra Spaces: Justified text in PDFs is created by adding variable spaces between words, which get copied over.
Broken Words: Sometimes words get split across lines with a hyphen.

The Solution: A One-Click Text Cleaner

Our Remove Extra Spaces tool is purpose-built to solve this exact problem. It's a powerful text cleaner that can fix all these issues at once.

How to Clean Your Text: Step-by-Step

Copy the Messy Text: Select and copy the text from your PDF file, just as you normally would.
Open the Tool: Go to the Remove Extra Spaces tool on TexyTools.
Paste Your Text: Paste the messy text into the "Input Text" box.
Select Your Cleaning Options: This is the key step. For text from a PDF, you will most likely want to check these two boxes:
- ☑ Remove Extra Spaces: This will remove all leading/trailing spaces and collapse multiple spaces between words into a single space.
- ☑ Remove All Line Breaks: This will remove all the unwanted line breaks, merging your text into a clean, single paragraph.
Copy the Cleaned Text: The "Cleaned Output" box will instantly show you the corrected text. It will look like a normal, readable paragraph. Copy it and use it wherever you need!

Other Useful Cleaning Options

Our tool has other features you might find useful:

Remove Empty Lines: If your text has extra blank lines between paragraphs, this option will remove them, tightening up your document.
Remove Duplicate Lines: If you've copied a list that contains duplicate entries, this option will automatically remove them, leaving you with only unique items.

Stop wasting time manually fixing text copied from PDFs. By using a simple online text cleaner, you can automate the process and turn a frustrating task into a one-click solution. Bookmark the Remove Extra Spaces tool and save yourself hours of tedious editing.