Text Cleaner
The Text Cleaner normalizes messy text in one click. Choose whether to collapse runs of whitespace into a single space, trim every line and drop blank lines, or also remove consecutive duplicate lines. It reports how many characters and lines were removed so you can see the improvement.
What this means
Messy text often comes from copy-pasting documents: double spaces, ragged indentation and accidental blank lines. Cleaning collapses repeated spaces to one, trims each line, removes empty lines, and can delete duplicate lines that appear one after another.
How we calculate it
Formula
Whitespace runs → single space. Each line trimmed, blank lines dropped, consecutive duplicates removed.Worked example
Text copied from a spreadsheet with double spaces and blank rows:
- 1Collapse double spaces into single spaces
- 2Trim leading and trailing spaces on each line
- 3Remove blank lines and consecutive duplicates
Important assumptions
- Only consecutive duplicate lines are removed, so repeated headings in normal prose are preserved.
Frequently asked questions
Will cleaning change my words?
No. Cleaning only touches whitespace and empty or duplicated lines — letters, punctuation and formatting within a line are untouched.
What is a consecutive duplicate line?
A line that appears immediately after an identical copy, such as a repeated header in an exported table. Non-adjacent repeats are left alone.
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