Background & cleanup
AI Text Remover
Strip dates, captions, and stamps off the image
Starter credits come with your account — and there's no card to enter.
- 1Upload the image with the unwanted lettering
- 2The AI removes the text and rebuilds what it covered
- 3Check the patched areas and download the clean image
Straight out of the editor, unretouched — slide the handle to see the change.
The archive is full of photos that came pre-captioned: the orange datestamp burned into every 90s print, the studio's imprint across a school portrait, the meme text somebody added before the original was lost, the platform badge on the only surviving copy of a picture. The lettering was metadata once; now it is damage.
Upload the image and the AI finds the overlaid text, removes it, and reconstructs what it covered — sky, skin, fabric, background — from the surrounding context. Because the fill is generated to match texture and lighting, the patch where a datestamp sat over a sunset gradient comes back as gradient, not as a smudged rectangle.
Datestamp removal is the archival classic — a whole envelope of 1997 prints, cleaned in minutes — and it works equally on scanned-in captions and inherited edits. Note the scope: this removes text overlaid on the image. Text that is physically part of the scene, like a shop sign, is better handled by Change Text when you want different words there rather than none.
Why this tool
- Send what you finish here straight into every other tool
- Standard, Pro and Max quality tiers
- Results land in your creations library
- Enlarge for printing, or set the still photo in motion as video
Frequently asked questions
Can it remove the orange datestamps on old prints?
Yes — film datestamps are the signature job. The burned-in digits go and the image beneath is reconstructed, which matters most when the stamp sat over a face or a sky.
What appears where the text was?
A generated continuation of the covered area, matched to its surroundings. Text over busy detail involves more reconstruction than text over sky, so review those patches accordingly.
Should I use this on other people's watermarked work?
No — removing a creator's watermark from work you do not have rights to is not what this is for. Its home turf is your own photos, family scans, and images you are entitled to clean up.
Can I try AI Text Remover for free?
Yes — every new account starts with 4 free credits, enough to run this tool once at Standard quality. No credit card required.
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