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Zero stored text
Rebuilds paragraphs
Reconstruct broken line breaks, merge hyphenated word splits, replace strange ligatures, and clean spacing from copied PDF text online. One click format fix. Never stored.
Reconstruct cleanly-formatted paragraphs in three simple steps.
Copy the fragmented text from any PDF document and paste it directly into our input workspace.
Choose whether to rejoin hyphens, replace weird ligatures, or perform smart line joining. Default parameters are recommended.
Click Clean. Our servers remove layout markers and return clean, copy-ready paragraphs instantly.
Enjoy premium paragraph restoration without manual spacing edits.
Automatically joins sentence line breaks while retaining double line breaks and list bullets.
Detects word splits across margins and joins them back. e.g. "com- \n puter" becomes "computer".
Converts unicode ligatures (like fi or fl) into standard, search-indexable characters.
Text is cleaned in-memory and immediately destroyed. We never index or log your text content.
Answers to common questions about repairing PDF copy-pasted text formatting.
PDF documents prioritize visual layout placement rather than flowable paragraphs. When copying, most PDF readers dump text line-by-line, retaining raw layout line breaks, breaking hyphenated words, and discarding standard spaces.
Our tool scans line endings. When a word is split with a trailing hyphen and newline (e.g. "implemen- \n tation"), it strips the hyphen and rejoins the word parts ("implementation") automatically.
Ligatures are combined typographical characters like "fi" and "fl" used in PDFs for display. Many text editors do not support or search them. We restore standard typographic ligatures to normal individual characters ("fi", "fl", etc.).
If you copy multiple columns at once, the browser usually merges them line-by-line in the wrong order. For best results, we recommend copying one column at a time and pasting it here to reconstruct individual paragraphs.
Yes. Your text is processed in-memory and immediately piped back. We never store, log, write to database, or share your pasted text.
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