PDFs and plain-text emails break every line at a fixed width. Paste the text and ClepBoard rejoins lines into proper paragraphs, fixes words split with a hyphen, and turns fi and fl ligatures back into normal letters.
Rejoins lines broken by PDFs and emails, fixes split words and fi/fl ligatures.
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Clean
1 Paste text on the left
2 See what’s hiding in the X-ray
3 Copy it back, clean
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Typography
Layout & spacing
Keyboard: Ctrl+Enter copies the clean text, Ctrl+Shift+Enter copies rich text, keys 1 to 6 switch presets, X toggles the X-ray.
What it fixes
Hard line breaks in the middle of sentences are joined so each paragraph flows as one line.
Hyphenated words split across lines (“employ-↵ees”) are rejoined as “employees”. Real hyphenated words like “well-known” are kept.
Ligatures like fi, fl, ff, ffi, which break spell-check and search, become normal letters.
Paragraph breaks are kept. Blank lines, list items and short lines that end a sentence stay where they are.
Soft hyphens and other invisible characters PDFs leave behind are removed.
Tips
If you copy from a two-column PDF, copy one column at a time; PDF viewers often interleave columns.
Scanned PDFs need OCR first. ClepBoard cleans text; it doesn’t read images.
Smart mode usually detects PDF text automatically. If it doesn’t, choose PDF above the editor.
FAQ
Why does text from a PDF have line breaks?
A PDF stores text as positioned lines on a page, not as flowing paragraphs. When you copy it, each visual line becomes a separate line of text.
Will it merge my bullet points into one line?
No. Lines starting with bullets, numbers or letters like "a)" stay on their own lines.