Line Break Removal
Repair hard-wrapped lines while keeping real paragraphs.
Line Break Removal is a browser-based text tool on TextToolsBase. Repair hard-wrapped lines while keeping real paragraphs. To use it, paste or type your text and view the result directly in your browser — no signup and nothing to install.
Plain-text exports and copied PDF columns are often hard-wrapped, with a line break inserted at the end of every visual line even in the middle of a sentence.
Line Break Removal rejoins those wrapped lines into flowing paragraphs while leaving the blank lines that separate real paragraphs in place.
How to use Line Break Removal
- Paste hard-wrapped text such as a copied PDF column.
- Keep the preserve-paragraphs option on to rejoin wrapped lines while leaving blank-line gaps intact.
- Review the reflowed paragraphs, then copy them out.
Use cases
- Reflowing a paragraph that was hard-wrapped by an email client.
- Fixing a manuscript exported as fixed-width plain text.
- Joining wrapped lines from a code comment back into prose.
Good to know
Line Break Removal treats a blank line as a paragraph boundary and joins only the single breaks inside each block. With the preserve-paragraphs option on, the gaps between paragraphs survive; turn it off to collapse everything into one block. This is the gentler counterpart to a full flatten.
Frequently asked questions
How is this different from removing every line break?
This mode rejoins only the breaks inside a paragraph and keeps blank-line gaps, so your paragraph structure is preserved rather than flattened into one line.
What does the preserve paragraphs option do?
On, it keeps blank lines that separate paragraphs; off, it joins every line into a single block.
Does it fix words split across a line ending?
It joins the lines with a space, so wrapped lines reflow; it does not rejoin a word that was split with a hyphen at the line end.