Remove Date Stamp from Photo
Brush off the orange date burned into old camera and camcorder shots, and the AI rebuilds the scene behind the digits. Free, no signup.
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To remove a date stamp from a photo free: upload (or scan) the picture, brush over the orange digits and their separators with a small brush, and tap Remove. In about 20 seconds the AI repaints that corner to match the surroundings. It’s 3 a day free, 5 after a Google sign-in, no watermark on the result. This removes the visible burned-in stamp — it is separate from the invisible EXIF capture date stored in a digital file.
Burned-in dates, and why they’re not metadata
From the late 1980s through the 2000s, most point-and-shoot cameras and camcorders shipped with a “date back” feature that exposed the day — and sometimes the time — directly onto the frame. The result is the familiar bright orange or yellow seven-segment digits tucked into a corner of a generation of family photos. Because the date was exposed onto the film or written into the pixels at capture, it is part of the image itself.
That is the crucial difference from EXIF metadata. A modern phone stores the capture date invisibly in the file’s header, where you never see it and can edit it with a metadata tool. A date stamp is the opposite — visible ink on the picture. No “remove date” toggle exists for it; the only way to take it off is to rebuild the small patch of scene the digits were covering, which is exactly what AI inpainting does.
That makes corner date stamps one of the friendliest cases for this tool. The digits are small, they sit in a fixed corner, and they usually fall over forgiving backgrounds — sky, sand, grass, a wall. Brush them, remove, and the photo reads as it would have without the date back switched on, ready for an album or a reprint.
How to remove a date stamp in 3 steps
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Upload (or scan) the dated photo
Drag the JPG or PNG into the upload card. For a physical print, scan or photograph it first, then upload — straighten and crop the scan so the date sits flat. Files over 1536 pixels are downscaled automatically. The orange digits are usually in the bottom-right corner of point-and-shoot shots and the bottom-left of many camcorder frames.
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Brush over the date digits
Pick a small brush — 20–35 pixels handles most stamps — and paint over every digit plus the separators (the slashes, dots, or spaces between numbers). Catch the whole glyph: the tail of a 4, the dot of a colon, any faint glow around bright orange characters. A few pixels of margin helps. Zoom your browser in if the stamp is small or low-contrast against a bright sky.
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Remove and download
Tap Remove text. In about 20 seconds the AI repaints the digits' area to match what surrounds them — sky, sand, grass, a wall, a tablecloth. Hit Download for a clean PNG at your upload's dimensions. Old scans are often low-resolution; the stamp disappears, though the photo stays the resolution you scanned it at.