FreeAIText Remover
Remove text from an image
Find the text automatically or brush over it, and it is filled in.
Drop an image here, or .
Free AI that runs on your device, no sign-up. Nothing is uploaded. Only edit photos you own or have permission to edit; see our Acceptable Use Policy.
Text Remover: how to use it
- Drop in the image with text on it.
- Press Find text to mark the lettering automatically, or paint over it yourself with the brush.
- Remove it, check the result and download.
Tips
- Automatic detection finds printed text. Handwriting and stylised logos may need painting by hand.
- Only remove text or watermarks from images you own or have permission to edit.
- To hide private text rather than remove it, a solid box in the censor tool is safer.
Text Remover: what it does and when to use it
Text Remover combines two steps. First, Find text runs the open-source Tesseract text engine to mark where lettering sits in the image, or you paint over it yourself with the brush. Then the MI-GAN inpainting model fills those areas from the surrounding picture, so a caption over a sky or a label on a wall is replaced with sky or wall.
It works well on captions, date stamps, timestamps, stickers and signs over fairly simple backgrounds. Always check the marked area before removing: the detector reads Latin-alphabet text best, can miss small or stylised lettering, and can mark shapes that only look like letters. Adding a little brush around each word avoids faint outlines.
Text over a detailed or patterned background leaves the model with more to invent, and the fill can look blurred. Use this tool only on images you own or have the right to edit: removing watermarks, signatures or copyright notices from other people's work is against our terms. To read text rather than erase it, use Image to Text (OCR).
Text Remover: frequently asked questions
Is the Text Remover free, and do I need to sign up?
Yes, the Text Remover is 100% free with no sign-up, no login and no account. The Text Remover runs its AI model on your own device, so it has no credits, no daily limit and no upload, and saves at full resolution with no watermark. See why it is free.
Can it find the text by itself?
Yes. Press Find text and the same OCR engine as our Image to Text tool marks every word it can read. Paint over anything it missed, then remove it. Stylised or very small lettering is sometimes missed, which is what the brush is for. Related tool: Object Eraser.
Can I use it to remove watermarks?
Only from images you own. Removing a watermark or copyright notice from someone else's image breaks our terms and usually the law; the tool is for captions, date stamps and signs in your own photos. More help: ImgVX AI help docs.
How do I remove text from an image?
Press Find text to mark the words automatically, brush over anything it missed, then remove it. The AI fills the area from the surroundings. It is best on text over simple backgrounds such as sky, walls or plain packaging, and on date stamps in the corner of old photos.
Can I remove a date stamp from a photo?
Yes, that is one of the best uses. Brush over the date with a little margin and remove it. If a trace is left, a second small pass or the Retouch Tools clone stamp cleans it up.