How to Remove Blank Lines from Text

Strip all empty and whitespace-only lines from pasted text to compact your content.

Extra blank lines make text hard to read and process. They appear when copying from PDFs, pasting from web pages, and exporting from various applications.

Why Blank Lines Appear

PDF exports add blank lines between every visual line, web pages use spacing that becomes blank lines when copied, email forwards add blank lines between replies, and data exports pad records with empty rows.

How to Remove Them

Paste your text into the Remove Empty Lines tool above and click Run. Every line that is completely empty or contains only whitespace is removed. Lines with actual content are preserved in their original order.

When to Keep Some Blank Lines

If you want to keep paragraph separators (double blank lines) but remove single blank lines, first run Remove Empty Lines, then manually add paragraph breaks where needed. Or use the tool as part of a pipeline where the next step handles paragraph structure.

Common Use Cases

This tool is most useful for compacting PDF text output, cleaning up pasted web content, preparing text for line-based processing, and tidying up code output or terminal dumps.

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Everything runs locally in your browser. No data is stored.

Remove Empty Lines

Remove all empty and whitespace-only lines from pasted text. Great for compacting text copied from PDFs, emails, or documents with excessive spacing.

Example

Input

Line one

Line two


Line three

Output

Line one
Line two
Line three

How Remove Empty Lines Works

Remove all empty and whitespace-only lines from pasted text. Great for compacting text copied from PDFs, emails, or documents with excessive spacing.

This tool runs entirely in your browser — no data is sent to any server. Paste your text, click Run, and get your result instantly. You can also chain this tool with others using the pipeline feature: run Remove Empty Lines, then continue with a related tool to build a multi-step text workflow.

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