PDF Text Cleaner
Paste text copied from a PDF and automatically fix broken line breaks, split words, extra spaces and common formatting problems.
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Why does text copied from PDFs look broken?
PDFs usually store text according to where it sits on the page rather than as normal flowing paragraphs. When you copy it, that layout comes with it.
- hard line breaks in the middle of sentences
- words split across two lines
- unnecessary or doubled spaces
- broken paragraph formatting
- hyphenated words split across lines
Remove line breaks from PDF text
Text Rescue joins artificial line breaks back into flowing sentences while trying to keep genuine paragraph breaks intact. It is useful for text copied from reports, academic papers, council documents, manuals, contracts, ebooks and scanned or OCR documents. Results depend on the source document, so it will not be perfect every time — you can always edit the cleaned text before copying it.
Fix hyphenated words copied from PDFs
PDF text often arrives looking like this:
informa- tion
Text Rescue repairs that back to information. The rule is deliberately conservative so genuine hyphenated words such as long-term are left alone.
Clean PDF text before pasting into Word or ChatGPT
Cleaning copied text first makes it much easier to edit in Word or Google Docs, quote sections in your notes, paste material into ChatGPT or other tools, and reuse text in emails and reports.
Before and after
Before
This paragraph was copied from a PDF document and the formatting has been broken across multiple lines. Some informa- tion may also contain unwanted hyphenation.
After
This paragraph was copied from a PDF document and the formatting has been broken across multiple lines. Some information may also contain unwanted hyphenation.
Frequently asked questions
Need to clean text from somewhere else? Text Rescue cleans messy text from any source.