How to Chain Text Tools into Pipelines

Learn how to use TextRefinery's pipeline feature to chain multiple text tools together for complex workflows.

TextRefinery's pipeline feature lets you chain multiple tools together. Instead of running each tool separately and copy-pasting between them, your output flows directly into the next tool.

How Pipelines Work

Run any tool on your text. After you get output, a "Continue with another tool" panel appears below. Click a suggested tool and your output becomes its input automatically. A pipeline trail at the top shows your chain.

Example: PDF Email Extraction

Start with messy PDF text. Run Fix PDF Line Breaks to repair broken sentences. Continue with Normalize Whitespace to clean spacing. Then Remove Duplicate Lines to eliminate repeats. Finally, Extract Emails to pull all email addresses. Four steps, one smooth flow.

Example: Resume Cleanup

Paste resume text from a PDF. Run Clean Resume Text for initial cleanup. Continue with Resume Section Extractor to label sections. Then Extract Skills from Resume to pull the skills list.

Example: List Cleanup

Paste a messy list. Run Trim Leading & Trailing Spaces. Continue with Remove Empty Lines. Then Remove Duplicate Lines. Finally Sort Lines Alphabetically. You get a clean, unique, ordered list.

Tips

The pipeline feature suggests related tools, but you can navigate to any tool and it will pick up where you left off. Comparison tools (those needing two inputs) can't be chained into automatically since they need a second text input. You can restart a pipeline at any time with the Restart Pipeline button.

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Remove Duplicate Lines

Paste text with duplicate lines and instantly get a deduplicated version. Useful for cleaning lists, log files, CSV data, and any text where repetition needs to be eliminated.

Example

Input

apple
banana
apple
cherry
banana

Output

apple
banana
cherry

How Remove Duplicate Lines Works

Paste text with duplicate lines and instantly get a deduplicated version. Useful for cleaning lists, log files, CSV data, and any text where repetition needs to be eliminated.

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 Duplicate Lines, then continue with a related tool to build a multi-step text workflow.

Related Tools

Remove Empty Lines

Strip all blank lines from your text.

Remove Duplicate Paragraphs

Remove repeated paragraphs, keeping the first occurrence.

Sort Lines Alphabetically

Sort all lines in alphabetical order.

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