Unwrap List Items

Remove line breaks and unwrap text lines with the Unwrap List Items tool. Convert wrapped paragraphs, broken sentences, and multi-line entries into clean single-line format. Perfect for fixing text copied from PDFs, emails, or documents that have unwanted line breaks disrupting readability.

How to Use:

1. Input Your Wrapped Text
   • First, paste text with unwanted line breaks into the input box to see a live preview
   • Alternatively, use the Import button to load text files with wrapped content
   • The tool comes with sample wrapped paragraphs for demonstration

2. Configure Unwrapping Options
   • Next, preserve empty lines to keep blank lines that separate different sections
   • Then, trim extra spaces to remove leading and trailing whitespace from each line
   • Additionally, normalize spacing to convert multiple spaces into single spaces for cleaner output
   • Finally, choose a join character to replace line breaks (space, comma, etc.)

3. Select Unwrap Mode
   • Choose paragraph blocks to unwrap text within paragraphs while preserving paragraph breaks
   • Select all to single line to combine everything into one continuous line
   • Pick sentence blocks to unwrap based on sentence endings and maintain sentence separation
   • Alternatively, use custom delimiter to employ double line breaks as unwrap boundaries

4. Copy and Export Results
   • Watch the live preview update automatically as you modify settings
   • Subsequently, check the counter showing “Lines Unwrapped: X” below the output
   • Then, use the Copy button to grab the unwrapped results for pasting elsewhere
   • Finally, click Export to download the unwrapped text as a file

The tool intelligently handles different text structures, preserving important breaks while removing unwanted wrapping within continuous content blocks.

What Unwrap List Items can do:

This tool addresses the common problem of text that gets artificially wrapped due to email formatting, PDF extraction, or copy-paste operations that break long sentences across multiple lines. Furthermore, it proves incredibly useful when dealing with content that needs to flow naturally without arbitrary line breaks interrupting readability.

Content editors frequently encounter this issue when working with text copied from PDFs where each line becomes a separate entity, consequently breaking sentences and paragraphs in awkward places. However, the paragraph block mode intelligently identifies natural paragraph boundaries and unwraps only the content within each paragraph, thereby maintaining the document’s logical structure.

Email formatting often creates similar issues where messages get wrapped at arbitrary character limits, thus making quoted text or forwarded content difficult to read. Fortunately, the tool restores natural flow while preserving intentional breaks between different sections or quoted passages.

Technical writers working with documentation that transitions between formats often need to clean up wrapped code comments, installation instructions, or configuration examples. Moreover, the normalize spacing feature ensures consistent formatting throughout the document.

Academic researchers dealing with text extracted from research papers, especially those converted from PDF format, can use it to restore proper sentence flow while maintaining paragraph structure. This becomes particularly valuable when preparing quotes or references that need to appear as continuous text.

Additionally, the custom join character feature allows for specialized formatting needs, such as converting wrapped lists into comma-separated values or creating specific delimiter patterns required by particular applications or systems.

Example:

Starting with this wrapped text:

This is a long sentence that has been
wrapped across multiple lines and needs
to be unwrapped into a single line.

Here is another paragraph that spans
several lines and should be unwrapped
while preserving the paragraph break.

Using paragraph blocks mode produces:

This is a long sentence that has been wrapped across multiple lines and needs to be unwrapped into a single line.

Here is another paragraph that spans several lines and should be unwrapped while preserving the paragraph break.

Switching to all to single line mode gives you:

This is a long sentence that has been wrapped across multiple lines and needs to be unwrapped into a single line. Here is another paragraph that spans several lines and should be unwrapped while preserving the paragraph break.

Using comma as join character creates:

This is a long sentence that has been, wrapped across multiple lines and needs, to be unwrapped into a single line., , Here is another paragraph that spans, several lines and should be unwrapped, while preserving the paragraph break.

Unwrap List Items Table:

This table demonstrates different unwrapping scenarios and how various modes handle the same wrapped input text.

Common Use Cases:

The Unwrap List Items tool is essential for anyone working with text that’s been disrupted by formatting constraints or conversion processes. Content managers and editors frequently use it when importing text from various sources that have different line break conventions, ensuring consistent formatting across their content management systems. Academic researchers rely on it when working with text extracted from PDF papers where artificial line breaks interrupt the natural flow of sentences and paragraphs.

Technical writers and documentation specialists use it to clean up code comments, API documentation, or installation guides that have been wrapped at arbitrary character limits. Email administrators and customer service teams find it valuable for processing forwarded messages or quoted text that’s been mangled by different email clients. Data processing specialists use it to prepare text data for analysis or import into systems that expect specific formatting, converting wrapped entries into the clean, single-line format required by their target applications.