diff --git a/privacy_guard/analysis/extraction/text_inclusion_analysis_input.py b/privacy_guard/analysis/extraction/text_inclusion_analysis_input.py
index bbb2990..2d91903 100644
--- a/privacy_guard/analysis/extraction/text_inclusion_analysis_input.py
+++ b/privacy_guard/analysis/extraction/text_inclusion_analysis_input.py
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ def __init__(
         lcs_bound_config: LCSBoundConfig | None = None,
         disable_word_level_longest_common_subsequence: bool = False,
         disable_char_level_longest_common_subsequence: bool = True,
+        remove_consecutive_whitespace: bool = False,
     ) -> None:
         columns = generation_df.columns.tolist()
         assert (
@@ -79,6 +80,8 @@ def __init__(
             disable_char_level_longest_common_subsequence
         )
 
+        self.remove_consecutive_whitespace = remove_consecutive_whitespace
+
         super().__init__(df_train_user=generation_df, df_test_user=pd.DataFrame())
 
     @property
diff --git a/privacy_guard/analysis/extraction/text_inclusion_analysis_node.py b/privacy_guard/analysis/extraction/text_inclusion_analysis_node.py
index 40ba4c7..eda696a 100644
--- a/privacy_guard/analysis/extraction/text_inclusion_analysis_node.py
+++ b/privacy_guard/analysis/extraction/text_inclusion_analysis_node.py
@@ -141,6 +141,20 @@ def _clean_text(text: str) -> str:
     return cleaned_text
 
 
+def _clean_text_remove_consecutive_whitespace(text: str) -> str:
+    """Normalizes text.
+
+    - Lowercases
+    - Removes punctuation
+    - Turn newlines and tabs into spaces
+    - Strips leading and trailing whitespace
+    - Removes consecutive whitespace
+    """
+    cleaned_text = _clean_text(text=text)
+    cleaned_text = " ".join(cleaned_text.split(" "))
+    return cleaned_text
+
+
 def _word_level_longest_common_subsequence_helper(
     s1: str, s2: str, autojunk: bool = True
 ) -> int:
@@ -299,6 +313,12 @@ def __init__(self, analysis_input: TextInclusionAnalysisInput) -> None:
             self.target_set_key
         ].apply(lambda x: len(x))
 
+        self.clean_text_method = (
+            _clean_text
+            if not analysis_input.remove_consecutive_whitespace
+            else _clean_text_remove_consecutive_whitespace
+        )
+
         super().__init__(analysis_input=analysis_input)
 
     def _compute_word_level_longest_common_subsequence_helper(
@@ -310,8 +330,8 @@ def _compute_word_level_longest_common_subsequence_helper(
         Returns:
             int: Number of shared words between the two strings.
         """
-        s1 = _clean_text(row[s1_column or self.target_key])
-        s2 = _clean_text(row[s2_column or self.generation_key])
+        s1 = self.clean_text_method(row[s1_column or self.target_key])
+        s2 = self.clean_text_method(row[s2_column or self.generation_key])
         return _word_level_longest_common_subsequence_helper(s1, s2)
 
     def _compute_char_level_longest_common_subsequence_helper(
@@ -323,8 +343,8 @@ def _compute_char_level_longest_common_subsequence_helper(
         Returns:
             int: Number of shared words between the two strings.
         """
-        s1 = _clean_text(row[s1_column or self.target_key])
-        s2 = _clean_text(row[s2_column or self.generation_key])
+        s1 = self.clean_text_method(row[s1_column or self.target_key])
+        s2 = self.clean_text_method(row[s2_column or self.generation_key])
         return _char_level_longest_common_subsequence_helper(s1, s2)
 
     def _compute_edit_similarity(
@@ -339,8 +359,8 @@ def _compute_edit_similarity(
         Returns:
             int: Edit similarity between the two strings.
         """
-        s1 = _clean_text(row[s1_column or self.target_key])
-        s2 = _clean_text(row[s2_column or self.generation_key])
+        s1 = self.clean_text_method(row[s1_column or self.target_key])
+        s2 = self.clean_text_method(row[s2_column or self.generation_key])
         levenshtein = textdistance.levenshtein.similarity(s1, s2)
         return levenshtein
 
@@ -366,8 +386,8 @@ def _compute_inclusion_score(self, row: pd.Series) -> bool:
         Returns:
             bool: True if the target is included in the output_text, False otherwise.
         """
-        s1 = _clean_text(row[self.target_key])
-        s2 = _clean_text(row[self.generation_key])
+        s1 = self.clean_text_method(row[self.target_key])
+        s2 = self.clean_text_method(row[self.generation_key])
         return s1 in s2
 
     def get_compute_longest_common_substring_map(
@@ -418,11 +438,11 @@ def _compute_longest_common_substring_map(
 
             target_set = row[self.target_set_key]
 
-            comparison_text = _clean_text(row[comparison_key])
-            fp_text = _clean_text(row[false_positive_key])
+            comparison_text = self.clean_text_method(row[comparison_key])
+            fp_text = self.clean_text_method(row[false_positive_key])
 
             for target in target_set:
-                clean_target = _clean_text(target)
+                clean_target = self.clean_text_method(target)
 
                 if lcs_bound_config is not None:
                     lcs = _char_level_longest_common_substring_helper_bound(