How I Built an AI Tool to Remove Text, Watermarks, and Unwanted Objects from Images

How I Built an AI Tool to Remove Text, Watermarks, and Unwanted Objects from Images A lot of image editing tasks are surprisingly repetitive. Not full Photoshop-level editing — just the annoying everyday cleanup work: removing text from a screenshot deleting a watermark from a mockup erasing a distracting object from a photo cleaning up an image before reusing it in a document, ad, or design removing a background from a product image I kept running into these cases, so I built a small web tool for it: ImageCleanupAI It’s an online AI image cleanup tool that helps users remove text, watermarks, unwanted objects, and backgrounds from images directly in the browser. The problem I wanted to solve Many image tools are either: too heavy for simple cleanup tasks too limited to produce natural-looking results too “one-click” with no way to refine the output In practice, image cleanup usually needs both automation and control . For example, AI may correctly detect most of a text overlay, but th