Remove Line Breaks

How this calculation works

Every line break is replaced with a single space and surrounding whitespace tidied, turning hard-wrapped text back into flowing paragraphs.

What the results mean

Spaces, not nothing

Breaks become spaces so words do not run together — "line one\nline two" becomes "line one line two".

Paragraph breaks kept

Blank lines are treated as deliberate paragraph boundaries and survive, so a hard-wrapped document comes back as flowing paragraphs rather than as one continuous block.

Hyphenation

A word split across a line break with a hyphen is left as it is. Rejoining those automatically would corrupt genuinely hyphenated compounds, so it is a judgement the tool leaves to you.

Common problems and fixes

Text copied from a PDF is broken at every line

That is exactly what this fixes. PDFs store text positioned line by line with no notion of a flowing paragraph, so copying produces a hard break at the end of every visual line. Joining them restores prose you can paste into a document or an email without reflowing it by hand.

Everything collapsed into one enormous paragraph

The source used single line breaks between paragraphs rather than blank lines, so there was nothing to distinguish a wrap from a paragraph boundary. Add a blank line between paragraphs in the source before running the tool, or split the result back into paragraphs afterwards.

Words from a PDF are stuck together

Some PDFs break lines without a trailing space, so joining them butts the last word of one line against the first of the next. Each break is replaced with a space here precisely to avoid that. If words are still running together, the space was missing inside the original line rather than at the break.

Frequently asked questions

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