Paint over a date, a sticker, a caption, a label or a name in your poster or image. Recovoly erases the text and rebuilds the sky, texture or background that was behind it - so the picture looks like the words were never there, and nothing else changes.
Old date painted out
Date band rebuilt
Sticker removed
Artwork rings matched
Headline & lineup kept
Only marked text goes
Animated walkthrough of the AI Restore Studio erasing last year's date and a ticket sticker from a text-heavy club poster.
2
ways to erase: paint it out, or describe it
12
pieces of text removed per image, in one run
0
pixels changed outside the areas you mark
1:1
export at your image's original resolution
Text sits on top of something - a sky, a wall, a product. Take the words away and you need to know what was underneath. Blur boxes and black bars just announce that something was hidden.
The usual fixes
With Recovoly
This poster is covered in text. Pick which blocks go - the date, the sticker, the lineup, the prices, the small print - and keep the artwork and headline for the next event.
Erase this text
2 blocks of text erased. The rest of the poster is untouched.
THE RIVERSIDE CLUB PRESENTS
JAZZ
NIGHT
LIVE MUSIC · EVERY FRIDAY
THE BLUE NOTES
MAYA ELLIS QUARTET
DJ SOULSHINE (LATE SET)
£12 ADVANCE · £15 ON THE DOOR
12 Quay Street, Riverside
riversideclub.co.uk · 18+ · ID required
THE RIVERSIDE CLUB PRESENTS
JAZZ
NIGHT
LIVE MUSIC · EVERY FRIDAY
THE BLUE NOTES
MAYA ELLIS QUARTET
DJ SOULSHINE (LATE SET)
FRI 14 MARCH 2025 · DOORS 8 PM
£12 ADVANCE · £15 ON THE DOOR
12 Quay Street, Riverside
riversideclub.co.uk · 18+ · ID required
LAST FEW
TICKETS!
Illustration. Drag the handle from the left to bring the text back - the artwork underneath is always the same.
Most images are clean in under a minute.
Sign in to Recovoly and open the AI Restore Studio. New? A free account takes a minute.
A photo, a graphic or a screenshot - JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, TIFF or PDF.
Brush over it and choose Inpaint, or box it and choose Remove with your own words.
The text is erased and the picture behind it rebuilt. Compare, then download.
Both rebuild the background. Pick whichever suits the text you're removing.
Paint over the text with the brush. It is erased and filled in from its surroundings - no instruction needed. Ideal for captions over skies, colours and soft textures.
Box, lasso or brush the text and say what should disappear in your own words. Use it when the text sits over detail, or when you want to name what must stay.
Sunset colours, clear blue and soft clouds continue straight through.
Backgrounds, badges and coloured panels behind a label are refilled.
Sand, wood, brick, fabric and paper grain carry on where the words were.
Noise, lighting and shadows are matched so the patch doesn't look clean or flat.
Erase the old date, lineup and prices from an event poster and keep the artwork for the next one.
Lift the orange camera date from holiday and family photos before framing or sharing.
Take the text off a social post or banner to reuse the artwork for something new.
Remove printed prices, sticker text or labels to get a clean product image.
Clear the words from a slide or poster image when only the picture is worth keeping.
Erase labels from a diagram to make a quiz, or to relabel it in another language.
Remove names, usernames and notification text before a screenshot goes into a guide.
Clear the text from a sign, banner or board in a photo of your own place.
Erase words on a wall, a sign or a T-shirt in your own photos.
A screenshot for a support ticket, a photo of a parcel, an example for a tutorial. Instead of black bars and blur boxes, remove the names, emails and numbers so the background shows through - the image stays clean and readable, and the details are gone from what you export.
Recovoly is for removing text from images you own or have the right to edit. It is not for removing watermarks, copyright notices, photographer credits or ownership marks from other people's work, and not for altering IDs, documents or records. That breaks our terms of use and may be illegal.
Five steps for every area you mark.
Brush, box, ellipse or lasso round exactly the words you want gone.
The area is cut out with enough of the image around it to see what continues behind.
The text is removed and the background - sky, texture, shape - is reconstructed.
Colour, light and camera noise are matched to the untouched pixels around it.
A feathered mask blends it in. Outside your mark, the image is the original file.
Box, ellipse, lasso, brush
Mark straight captions, round stamps or curved text the way that fits.
Strength per area
Balanced for most text, Rebuild where a lot of the background is hidden.
Compare & zoom
Check every rebuilt area against the original before you export.
| What you need | Recovoly | Clone stamp | Blur / black bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rebuilds what was behind the text | By hand | ||
| No smudges, blur boxes or black bars | With skill | ||
| Keeps the rest of the image untouched | |||
| Works on skies, textures and patterns | Slow | ||
| Several pieces of text in one run | |||
| No editing skills needed | |||
| Full-resolution export | |||
| Image still looks natural | Sometimes |
Six habits for a fill nobody notices.
Paint a little past the edges of the text, including shadows and outlines, so no fragment is left behind.
Over skies, colours and soft textures, paint it out - no instruction needed.
Over detail, describe it: "remove the date stamp, keep the sand ripples".
A caption and a date stamp are two areas, each rebuilt from its own surroundings.
Full-resolution photos give the AI more real detail to rebuild from than a compressed copy.
Zoom in on each area. Want a different fill? Run it again or try Rebuild strength.
Log in, open the AI Restore Studio and upload the image. Paint over the text with the brush and choose Inpaint, or draw a box round it and choose Remove (you can type what should disappear). Press Restore and the text is erased, with the picture behind it rebuilt from its surroundings.
The picture that should be there. The AI looks at what surrounds the text - a sky gradient, sand, a wall, fabric, a pattern, a coloured shape - and rebuilds that area so it continues naturally. The rest of the image is left exactly as it was.
Inpaint is the quickest: paint over the text and it is erased and filled in from its surroundings - no instruction needed. Remove lets you describe what should go in your own words (for example "remove the orange date stamp"), which helps when the text sits over something detailed or when you want to say what to keep.
Yes. The orange or red date printed by many film and early digital cameras is one of the most common things people remove. Box it or paint over it and the corner of the photo is rebuilt without it.
Yes - only the areas you mark change. Remove a caption and keep a logo, erase a date stamp and leave the sign in the scene, clear one label on a diagram and keep the others. Everything outside your marks is the original image, pixel for pixel.
Yes. Mark the names, email addresses, phone numbers or account details in a screenshot or photo and remove them, so the image can be shared without them. The area is filled in to match the background rather than blurred or blacked out.
Text over skies, gradients, solid colours, walls and soft textures comes out cleanest. Text over faces, fine patterns or detailed objects is harder because more has to be rebuilt - mark tightly, use Remove with a short description, and try Rebuild strength if needed.
No. Recovoly is not for removing watermarks, copyright notices, credits or ownership marks from images you don't own or license. Use it on your own photos, graphics and screenshots, or images you have the right to edit.
Upload JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, TIFF and more, or a PDF. Export the cleaned image at its original resolution as PNG, JPG or PDF, or save it to your Recovoly assets.
Each marked area costs 10 points from your Recovoly balance, so removing a caption and a date stamp costs 20 points. See the pricing page for plans.
Replace text in image swaps the words for new ones in the same font. Remove text from image erases the words completely and rebuilds the picture behind them - nothing new is written.
It shouldn't. Each area is colour-matched to its surroundings and blended in through a soft-edged mask, with the photo's grain and lighting carried across. Zoom in with compare before you export - and run an area again if you want a different fill.
Swap the words in a graphic for new ones in the same font.
Rewrite words on signs, menus and labels in camera photos.
Clear handwritten entries from forms and worksheets.
Remove stickers, tape and objects from pages and images.
Mark any area of an image and restore only that area.
Plans and point packs for the studio.
Log in, upload an image and erase your first piece of text in under a minute.
10 points per area · original always kept · see pricing
