Fix text pasted from a PDF or email
Text copied from a PDF or an email often arrives with a line break at every wrap. Fix it here in one step.
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- Works offline after a visit
How to fix text pasted from a PDF
- Paste the text, as copied from the PDF or email.
- Leave the boxes ticked for the fixes you want, and untick any you do not.
- Copy the cleaned text. The line count shows what changed.
Questions
Why does text from a PDF break into short lines?
A PDF stores each printed line separately, so copying it keeps the line breaks of the page. The fix joins the lines of each paragraph and keeps blank lines as paragraph breaks.
What does the hyphen fix do?
A word split with a hyphen at the end of a line, and continuing in lower case on the next line, is joined back together. A real hyphen at a line end, as in a well-known phrase, is joined too, so untick that box if your text has those.
What does removing page numbers do?
It is off by default. When it is on, lines that hold only a number, such as 12 or Page 12 of 40, are removed, so a line that is only a year would go too.
Is my text sent anywhere?
No. Cleaning runs in your browser and the text is not stored.