How do I remove empty lines?

Paste your text and get the de-blanked output instantly. Click Copy.

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When should I remove empty lines?

Use it for cleaning up pasted PDF content with excess blank lines, compressing plain text for export, removing visual gaps in code blocks, and tightening scripts or subtitle files.

Does it remove lines that only contain spaces?

Yes. Lines that contain only whitespace characters (spaces, tabs) are treated as empty and removed.

Remove Empty Lines vs. Remove Line Breaks — what is the difference?

Remove Empty Lines keeps all non-blank lines intact and only deletes the blank ones. Remove Line Breaks joins ALL lines — blank or not — into a single paragraph.

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Remove Empty Lines — Delete Blank Lines from Text Instantly

Delete all blank or whitespace-only lines from your text.

Input Text

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What Is Remove Empty Lines?

Delete all blank or whitespace-only lines from your text.

Empty lines accumulate quickly in real-world text — they appear between paragraphs copied from websites, between rows in exported text files, after list items in documents, and in code output that includes blank separators. While a single blank line can be meaningful as a paragraph separator, multiple consecutive empty lines are almost always unwanted noise.

This tool deletes all blank lines from your text (including lines containing only spaces or tabs), preserving only the content-bearing lines. It is especially useful when preparing text for line-by-line processing, sorting, deduplication, or import into systems that treat blank lines as invalid records.

Example

Line 1

Line 2


Line 3

→

Line 1
Line 2
Line 3

When to Use the Remove Empty Lines

→Cleaning exported data files — text exports from databases and spreadsheets often include blank rows between records that break line-by-line processing
→Preparing text for sort and deduplication tools — blank lines mixed into a list produce empty entries in sorted output; removing them first prevents this
→Compacting long documents for analysis — academic papers and manuals often have excessive vertical whitespace that needs removing before text analysis
→Cleaning AI-generated and chatbot output — LLM-generated text commonly includes extra blank lines between sections that need to be stripped
→Processing log files — server logs frequently contain blank lines between entries that slow down log analysis and grep searches

How to Use the Remove Empty Lines

Paste or type your text into the Input Text box.
The result appears instantly on the right.
Click Copy to copy the output to your clipboard.
Click Clear to reset and process new text.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about Remove Empty Lines

It scans your text and deletes all lines that contain no content — including lines with only spaces or tabs — tightening up the text into a compact block.