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TextGleam / PDF text cleaner

Free PDF copy cleaner

Fix broken lines in text copied from a PDF.

Join hard-wrapped lines, repair words split by line-end hyphens, normalize spaces, and keep real paragraph breaks intact.

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  1. 1 · Copy text from the PDFPaste selectable PDF text into the left box.
  2. 2 · Repair the linesSelect “Repair PDF text” to join wraps and split words.
  3. 3 · Check the paragraphsReview the right box, then copy or download it.
Paste copied PDF textWorks without uploading the PDF

What this repair changes

  • Joins line breaks inserted by narrow PDF columns
  • Rejoins lowercase words split with a hyphen at the end of a line
  • Preserves blank-line paragraph boundaries
  • Removes hidden characters and repeated spaces

Best for selectable PDF text

This cleaner works with text you can copy from a PDF. Scanned image-only PDFs need optical character recognition before the text can be cleaned.

Read the step-by-step PDF line-break guide →