Remove text from image.
Paint over the words. Get the background back.

Upload the picture to the tool at the top of this page, paint over every letter you want gone with a little margin around it, and click Remove text. The AI rebuilds the background where you painted, and you download the result in under a minute. Use the small brush for text near faces or objects and the large one for big headlines. If a faint outline is left, paint a little wider and run it again on the original image.

Sign in with Google and you get three free removals every day, no card needed; a removal that fails doesn't count, and after three it is one credit each. If you'd rather do it by hand at no cost, Photopea in the browser or GIMP on the desktop can do it: select the text and fill it from the surroundings, or paint over it with the healing or clone tool. Manual work is fine on flat backgrounds and slow on photos.

Paint only over the letters, not the area around them, and let the tool rebuild just those strokes; the background outside your brush marks is left as it was, and on screenshots and graphics it is the original file pixel for pixel. Removal works because the model fills each painted area to match the pixels right around it, so the tighter the paint, the less it has to invent. Flat colour, gradients, sky and out-of-focus backgrounds come back cleanly. Strong repeating patterns such as brick, knit or tiles are the hardest, because a break in the rhythm is easy to spot.

Only if the text is vector. If it is live type or outlined shapes, select it with the Selection tool and delete it. If the text is part of a placed photo or a flattened image, Illustrator cannot rebuild the pixels behind it: remove the text in Photoshop or an AI remover like this one first, then place the cleaned image back into your artwork.

Use the Remove tool: pick it from the toolbar, set the brush a little larger than the letters, and paint over the text; Photoshop fills the area from the surrounding pixels. For a block of text on a plain background, select it with the Lasso tool and use Edit, Content-Aware Fill instead. Both need Photoshop and some cleanup by hand on textured backgrounds.

Yes, but you don't need two steps. The main editor replaces text directly: you type the words that are there and the words you want, and the new text is drawn in the original style. Remove first only when you want the area empty, for example a blank meme template or a product photo without any label.

Not on someone else's image. Removing watermarks, photographer credits or signatures from work you don't own breaks our Acceptable Use Policy and, in many countries, copyright law. Removing your own branding from your own photos, or text you added yourself, is fine.

Remove it when the picture should look as if the text was never there, as on product photos, slides and memes. Blur or black it out when you're sharing a screenshot and only need a name or number to be unreadable: that's faster, free, happens in your browser, and doesn't depend on how well a background was rebuilt.