Text cleanup
Remove Empty Lines
Fix accidental vertical gaps without flattening the structure you want to keep.
Processed locally. Your input and output are never uploaded.
Tool overview
Remove Empty Lines tool overview
Remove Empty Lines distinguishes truly empty lines from lines containing spaces or tabs. You can remove every blank or collapse repeated blank runs into one deliberate separator.
Repair gaps in lists and paragraphs
- Clean data copied from PDFs
- Repair lists with accidental blank rows
- Normalize article paragraph spacing
- Prepare plain text for import
Remove blanks or preserve paragraph breaks
- Paste the text with unwanted gaps.
- Choose whether whitespace-only lines count as empty.
- Remove all matching lines or collapse runs to one.
- Review paragraph spacing and copy the result.
Empty, whitespace-only, and collapsed lines
- Whitespace-only detection includes spaces and tabs.
- Collapse mode leaves one empty line between text blocks.
- Preserve paragraph breaks is useful for prose, while full removal is better for lists.
Collapse repeated vertical gaps
Before
First Second Third
After
First Second Third
Invisible content and line-ending behavior
- A line containing an invisible Unicode character may not count as empty.
- Collapse mode removes leading and trailing empty runs.
- Line endings are normalized in the output.
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Questions
Remove Empty Lines FAQ
Can I keep one blank line between paragraphs?
Yes. Choose collapse mode to reduce each run of blanks to one empty line.
Are lines containing only tabs removed?
They are when whitespace-only lines are treated as empty.