Remove Extra Blank Lines Online Free — Clean Up

Remove Extra Blank Lines — collapse repeated blank lines error runs in your browser · nothing uploaded

⌃⏎ run · ⎋ clear · / focus input

TEXT ⇅ upload

⇅ drop a file to load it

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Handles pastes up to ~5MB smoothly in your browser — bigger files still work, just budget a second or two.

Remove Extra Blank Lines Online

Updated 2026-07-09

Remove extra blank lines from text online for free. Paste text with large vertical gaps and SnapTools collapses each run of empty lines into a single blank line — instantly, in your browser. Nothing you paste is uploaded.

Text pasted from PDFs, exports, and converted documents often arrives with big vertical gaps between paragraphs. This tool normalises that spacing, keeping one blank line between blocks so paragraphs stay separated but the clutter is gone. Lines that only contain spaces or tabs count as blank too, so "empty-looking" gaps collapse just the same.

// how to use

1 Paste your text into the input panel on the left.
2 SnapTools collapses runs of blank lines into a single blank line as you type.
3 Read the tidied text on the right, then copy or download it.

// examples

Collapse blank lines

Input

first



second

Output

first

second

// common uses

Tidying text with large vertical gaps Normalising paragraph spacing in copied content Cleaning exported or converted documents Preparing consistent text for publishing

// faq

No. The clean-up runs entirely in your browser, so your text never leaves your machine.

It reduces any run of consecutive empty lines to a single empty line, so paragraphs stay separated by one blank line instead of several.

No. It keeps a single blank line between blocks to preserve readable paragraph spacing. To remove line breaks entirely, use the Remove Line Breaks tool.

Lines containing only spaces or tabs are treated as blank, so a run of "empty-looking" lines collapses just like truly empty ones.

This targets vertical spacing — extra blank lines between text. The Whitespace Remover targets horizontal spacing — spaces and tabs within lines.

// related

Whitespace Remover Remove Line Breaks Remove Duplicate Lines Remove Emojis Strip HTML Tags

Use this via API

Get a free API key →

curl -X POST https://snaptools.dev/api/v1/tools/remove-extra-blank-lines \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text":"first second"}'