How to Restore Old Photos with a Face Restoration API

Old photographs fade, scratch, and lose detail over time. A face restoration API uses deep learning to reconstruct facial details lost to age, compression, or low resolution — sharpening eyes, smoothing artifacts, and recovering natural textures. What You Get AI detail recovery with 2x upscale — Reconstructs eyes, eyebrows, lips, and skin texture Single request, instant result — One POST, one permanent CDN URL back Two modes — single (default) for portraits, all for group photos Flexible input — Upload a file or pass a URL (JPEG, PNG, WebP) Python Example import requests response = requests . post ( " https://face-restoration.p.rapidapi.com/enhance-face " , headers = { " x-rapidapi-host " : " face-restoration.p.rapidapi.com " , " x-rapidapi-key " : " YOUR_API_KEY " , }, data = { " image_url " : " https://example.com/old_photo.jpg " , " mode " : " single " , }, ) data = response . json () print ( data [ " image_url " ]) # Permanent CDN URL print ( data [ " faces_detected " ]) # Number o