How to Remove Line Breaks from Copied PDF Text Without Destroying Paragraphs

Copied PDF text often includes artificial hard line breaks, but a blanket whitespace replace can destroy real structure.

The article shows how to normalize newlines while preserving blank-line paragraph breaks and other meaningful spacing.

It provides simple JavaScript and Python routines that merge only single wrapped lines, not true paragraph, list, or code breaks.

The result is cleaner text that keeps paragraph structure intact instead of flattening everything into one block.