How to clean up messy copied text

Fix the mangled formatting you get when copying from PDFs, emails, and spreadsheets — in one click.

Copy a paragraph out of a PDF and you get a line break at the end of every visual line. Copy from a spreadsheet and you get duplicates and stray tabs. Copy from email threads and you get doubled spaces and blank-line noise. The Toolsfully clean-up tool fixes all of these at once — you tick what to fix, it does the rest, and your text never leaves your browser.

Step-by-step

1. Open the Clean Up tool. Go to Text Tools and select the Clean Up tab.
2. Paste the messy text. Straight from the PDF, email, or spreadsheet.
3. Tick the fixes you want. Trimming line edges and collapsing repeated spaces are on by default; add removing blank lines, removing duplicate lines, or joining everything into one paragraph as needed.
4. Clean, then copy. Click "Clean up", review the result, and use Copy or Download .txt.

Tips

• PDF paragraphs: use "Join all lines". It merges the hard-wrapped lines back into one flowing paragraph — the classic PDF copy-paste fix.
• Spreadsheet lists: dedupe. "Remove duplicate lines" keeps the first occurrence of each line — a quick way to unique-ify an exported list.
• Run it twice with different options. Clean-up is in-place, so you can do one pass to fix spacing, then another to join lines.

Frequently asked questions

What order do the fixes run in?

Trim, then collapse spaces, then remove duplicates, then remove blank lines, then join — so the options compose predictably.

Will it change my words?

No — it only touches whitespace and duplicate/blank lines. Spelling, punctuation, and casing are left exactly as pasted.

Is pasted text private?

Yes. Everything runs locally in your browser and is gone when you close the tab.