Paste text with unwanted line breaks and clean it up instantly. Perfect for fixing text copied from PDFs, emails, Word documents, or any source that adds hard returns mid-paragraph.
When you copy text from a PDF, the PDF format stores text line by line as it appears on the page, not as continuous paragraphs. This means every line ends with a hard return even in the middle of a sentence. The result is text full of line breaks that break up sentences and make it unusable for emails, documents, or web copy without manual cleanup. WordMetrics' Remove Line Breaks tool fixes this in one click.
Use the "Keep Paragraphs" mode — this removes the mid-sentence line breaks that PDFs add while preserving the actual paragraph separations, so your text structure is maintained. For a single-column PDF with no clear paragraphs, use "Remove All Line Breaks" and then manually add paragraph breaks where needed.
Beyond PDFs, this tool is useful for cleaning up text copied from older email clients that wrap lines at 72 characters, fixing exported data from databases that include unnecessary newlines, preparing text for APIs that don't accept line breaks, converting formatted lists into comma-separated values, and cleaning up code comments or logs.
The Custom Replace mode lets you replace each line break with any character. Replace with a space to merge lines. Replace with a comma to turn a list into CSV format. Replace with " | " to create a pipe-delimited list. Replace with " <br> " to prepare text for HTML. The possibilities are endless — type any replacement character in the custom field.