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Torn Repair
Seamlessly mend torn documents, ripped corners, and missing fragments. Our AI reconstructs lost text and paper texture with pixel-perfect accuracy.
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Restore torn documents, remove ink bleed, repair faded text, eliminate scratches, and reconstruct missing sections with precision AI inpainting technology.
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Document Restoration
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AI-Powered Document Background Restoration
Real Background Restoration Results
See how we transform damaged documents with intelligent background cleanup, faded texture correction, and precision restoration for cleaner, more readable results.
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Old Record Restoration
We remove dirty paper textures, faded backgrounds, and visual noise while preserving important text structure.
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Missing Piece Fill
Restore damaged documents by cleaning stains, improving contrast, and rebuilding background consistency.
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Deep Restore
Repair torn edges, worn paper textures, and faded zones for more readable and professional document output.
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Text Visibility Enhancement
AI restoration improves readability by reducing bleed marks, uneven paper tone, and distracting surface damage.
Readable Output
Restore readability by cleaning distracting backgrounds and enhancing damaged paper surfaces.
Smart Background Cleanup
Remove stains, aging marks, faded textures, and visual clutter without making documents look unnatural.
Professional Restoration
Designed for archives, certificates, official records, historical scans, and damaged paperwork restoration.
Why document restoration matters
Make damaged documents readable again
Document restoration is more than visual cleanup. It helps recover readability, improve presentation quality, and preserve important information from scans, archives, certificates, forms, and historical records.
Try it on your own document
See your page restored before you pay
Start on the free Basic plan, upload one damaged page and check the result yourself.
- Upload any scan - PDF, JPG, PNG and more
- Compare before and after side by side
- Your original scan is never changed
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Restore important document details
Bring back clarity in old records, certificates, contracts, and scanned pages that suffer from faded paper textures or damaged backgrounds.
Remove distracting noise and stains
Clean paper grain, dirt marks, shadows, fold damage, and uneven backgrounds to create a polished, readable document presentation.
Ideal for personal and business use
Useful for legal records, archive preservation, office paperwork, historical documents, certificates, and identity-related documentation.
AI restoration with modern precision
Our AI workflows are built to improve document quality while preserving the original structure and visual integrity of the page.
How our AI document restoration works
A simple and effective workflow designed to restore damaged documents, improve readability, and produce high-quality clean outputs.
Step 01
Upload damaged documents
Upload scans, photos, old records, certificates, or paper documents with stains, fading, torn edges, or noisy backgrounds.
Step 02
AI detects damage patterns
Our system analyzes background defects, faded zones, bleed-through, texture noise, and missing visual sections automatically.
Step 03
Smart restoration begins
AI restores document appearance through background reconstruction, cleanup, enhancement, and visual consistency correction.
Step 04
Download or keep it in your archive
Download a polished, easy-to-read result, and find every restored document saved in your Recovoly archive whenever you need it again.
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02AI restoration
Ink Bleed Removal
Eliminate ink bleed-through, water stains, and ghosting from old manuscripts. Preserve handwritten details while clearing background noise.
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03AI restoration
Inpainting
Fill in missing areas, remove stamps, or reconstruct faded text. AI completes the visual context naturally, as if never damaged.
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04AI restoration
Fade & Scratch Restoration
Revive faded ink, erase scratches and abrasions. Perfect for aged documents, typewritten letters, and historical records.
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Watch a stamp disappear, not the text under it
Real restoration is about restraint. This short film follows one receipt through Recovoly - from the raw scan to a clean copy - and shows how only the damaged area is touched.
- 01 · Upload
The scan comes in as it is
A registration receipt with a purple rubber stamp pressed right over the handwriting and the printed form lines.
- 02 · Detect
AI finds the damage, not the content
The page is analysed line by line. The stamp is separated from the ink underneath, so the text it covers is kept.
- 03 · Restore
Only the marked area is rebuilt
Paper tone, form lines and strokes are reconstructed from the surrounding page. Everything outside the area stays pixel for pixel.
- 04 · Export
A clean copy, ready to file
Download a high-resolution PNG, JPG or PDF and keep the original scan next to it for your records.
Handwriting stay untouched
Every pen stroke outside the repair keeps its exact shape and pressure.
Printed text stay untouched
Typefaces, form lines and numbers are left as they were scanned.
Signatures & seals stay untouched
Nothing is redrawn unless you ask - legal marks stay authentic.
Advanced AI Toolkitv2.0
Enterprise-grade restoration tools at your fingertips
Powered by proprietary AI models trained on millions of historical documents, manuscripts, and archival materials.
Smart Inpainting
AI-powered reconstruction of missing text, torn corners, and damaged areas with contextual awareness
Precision Detection
Automatically identify tears, folds, stains, and faded regions with pixel-level accuracy
Ink Bleed Removal
Neural filtering to eliminate ghosting, bleed-through, and water damage while preserving original ink
Texture Synthesis
Seamlessly regenerate paper texture, fibers, and vintage grain patterns
Color Restoration
Revive faded inks, correct sepia tones, and restore original document colors
Fragment Assembly
Intelligent alignment and merging of torn pieces, even with missing fragments
Scratch Removal
Remove surface abrasions, crease lines, and scanner artifacts without blurring text
Batch Processing
Restore entire document collections simultaneously with consistent quality
99.7%
Accuracy rate
10M+
Docs restored
40ms
Avg inference
256-bit
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Museums
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Field guide
Know your damage, pick the right fix
Every kind of damage has a cause, and each one needs a different repair. Here are the six problems we see most on old documents - what they look like, why they happen and how Recovoly restores them without touching what should stay.
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Water stains & tide-lines
Brown rings and hard-edged blooms where water dried on the paper.
- Why it happens
- Leaks, damp storage or a spilled cup. Minerals in the water collect at the drying edge.
- How we restore it
- The stain is lifted from the paper tone while the ink on top is kept at full strength.
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Faded ink & print
Pale, washed-out text that is hard to read or photocopy.
- Why it happens
- Light exposure, acidic paper and iron-gall or dye inks that break down over decades.
- How we restore it
- Strokes are rebuilt from what is still visible, restoring contrast without changing the letterforms.
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Foxing & spotting
Small rust-coloured dots and speckles scattered across the page.
- Why it happens
- Mould growth and metal impurities in the paper reacting with humidity.
- How we restore it
- Each spot is removed individually, so the natural grain and age of the paper stay intact.
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Tears & missing corners
Ripped edges, cracked fold lines and pieces that are gone entirely.
- Why it happens
- Handling, brittle paper and documents folded along the same line for years.
- How we restore it
- Missing paper, borders and column rules are reconstructed from the surrounding page.
05
Stamps over text
Rubber stamps, seals or library marks printed on top of important lines.
- Why it happens
- Office and archive workflows that stamp wherever there was space.
- How we restore it
- The stamp ink is separated from the text underneath and removed, leaving the words readable.
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Poor scans
Grey backgrounds, shadows at the spine, moiré and noisy grain.
- Why it happens
- Phone photos in low light, old flatbed scanners and heavy JPEG compression.
- How we restore it
- Backgrounds are evened out and edges sharpened, giving a clean, archive-ready file.
Before you upload
Five habits for a better restoration
The cleaner the scan, the more faithful the result. These take a minute and make a visible difference.
Improve an existing scan- 1
Scan at 300-600 DPI
More detail in means more detail the AI can preserve. 600 DPI suits small print and handwriting.
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Keep the whole page
Leave a little margin around the edges. Context from the border helps rebuild torn corners.
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Use even light
Avoid flash and window glare. A flat, shadow-free scan makes damage easier to separate from ink.
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Save a lossless copy
Upload PNG or TIFF when you can. Heavy JPEG compression adds blocks that look like damage.
- 5
Keep your original
Restoration creates a new file. Store the untouched scan alongside it for provenance.
Plans for every archive
Restore smarter, not harder
Whether it is one family letter or a whole collection, credits are only used on the pages you restore. Start free, then pick the plan that fits how much you need.
Individuals
Free to start
Paid plans from $14.99 / month
For family historians, researchers and collectors restoring letters, certificates, photos and personal archives.
- Start on the free Basic plan
- Monthly credits on paid plans
- No watermarks and PDF export on paid plans
Organizations
Custom pricing
Volume-based pricing for teams
For museums, libraries, archives and businesses digitizing whole collections and records at scale.
- Unlimited restorations and batch processing
- API access and custom integrations
- Dedicated account manager and SLA
Fully restored
The Meridian Chronicle
May 13, 1924 · front page
Frequently asked questions
Our AI restoration platform specializes in torn documents, faded manuscripts, ink-bleed pages, scratched photographs, and historical records. We support PDF, JPG, and PNG formats up to 50MB.