How to Remove Text from Images with AI (2025 Guide)
Need to remove watermarks, captions, or unwanted text from images? Our AI text removal guide shows you how to clean up images while preserving the background perfectly.
What You'll Need
- Image with text to remove
- PixelPanda account (free)
Step-by-Step Guide
Upload your image
Upload the image containing text you want to remove. We support JPG, PNG, and WebP formats. The AI can detect and remove various text types - watermarks, captions, overlays, signs, and more.
AI detects text regions
Our AI automatically identifies text areas in your image using OCR (Optical Character Recognition). It finds watermarks, captions, labels, signs, and other text elements.
Smart inpainting fills gaps
After detecting text, AI uses advanced inpainting to fill the removed areas. It analyzes surrounding pixels to recreate realistic textures, patterns, and gradients - not just blur or smudge.
Download clean image
Download your text-free image. The result maintains original quality with seamlessly filled areas where text used to be. Use it for e-commerce, social media, or any purpose.
Frequently Asked Questions
While technically capable, removing watermarks from copyrighted images violates terms of service and copyright law. Use this for removing YOUR watermarks, or watermarks you have permission to remove.
AI inpainting works remarkably well on most backgrounds - textures, patterns, gradients, even complex scenes. Faces and very detailed areas may need manual touch-ups in some cases.
Yes! The AI can detect and remove various text styles including handwriting, stylized fonts, and decorative text. Very artistic or abstract text may be treated as design elements.