Input
A docu- ment copied from PDF may wrap every visual line. 12
Workflow cleaners
Clean Text Copied from a PDF
PDF text is often stored according to visual line positions rather than paragraph structure. The default workflow repairs words split with hyphen-plus-newline, removes common page-number lines, joins wrapped lines with spaces, and normalizes the resulting whitespace.
Focused workspace
Clean Text from PDF
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Before and after
Clean Text from PDF Example
Output
A document copied from PDF may wrap every visual line.
Three steps
How to use this tool
- Copy selectable text from the PDF and paste it here.
- Review the hyphen, page-number, and line-joining options.
- Clean the text and verify paragraph boundaries against the PDF.
Useful workflows
Common use cases
- Repair research notes, reports, and ebook excerpts.
- Prepare PDF text for translation, summarization, or quoting.
- Remove visual-layout artifacts before publishing copied content.
How it works
Fast text processing without an upload
The selected operations are applied in order by JavaScript running on this page. The input is not sent to the Go server and is not written to SQLite. The server provides the page, SEO content, and blog system; the browser performs the text transformation.
Questions
Clean Text from PDF FAQ
Can this extract text from a PDF file?
No. This page cleans text you have already copied; it does not upload or parse PDF files.
Can hyphen repair make mistakes?
It only joins a letter followed by hyphen, newline, and a lowercase letter, but you should still review technical terms.
Will it preserve paragraphs?
Joining every line is best for hard-wrapped text. Disable that option when the copied paragraphs are already correct.