To remove an object from a photo online with Aihangsoft, upload the image, pick one of three modes, run it, and download the repaired file. The modes are Text, Icons and logos, and Selected area. It is free, needs no account, and adds no watermark of its own.
The part to read before you upload: this is a Cloud AI tool, not one of the twenty-eight browser tools on the site. Your picture is sent to our server and forwarded to Volcengine AI MediaKit for processing, and the result is deleted from the server thirty minutes later. A guest gets one free run a day, a free account five credits a day, and one erase costs one credit. The sections below cover what each mode erases, what the two selection sliders actually mean, and the one case where you should not erase at all.
Most pages in this category promise a clean result and quietly skip two things: that your file is uploaded, and that erasing a watermark is not always legal. Both belong on the table before you spend a run. The mode you choose also decides whether the tool helps or quietly removes something you wanted to keep.
AI Image Eraser
Erase text, logos or a box you draw, and let the AI rebuild the area behind it. A Cloud AI tool, so your image is uploaded for processing.
The three ways to erase something
The tool groups its work into three modes, selected with a row of chips above the run button. They behave differently, and only one of them lets you point at a specific part of the frame.
| Mode | What it targets | What it cannot do |
|---|---|---|
| Text (default) | Every piece of text it finds across the whole image, or one exact word or phrase you type in | Spare the text in one corner while erasing text elsewhere |
| Icons and logos | Common marks such as channel logos and badges | Erase a large photographic object |
| Selected area | Whatever you cover with a box, rebuilt from the surrounding texture | Choose what is inside the box; everything under it is rebuilt |
Text erases every caption it finds
Text is the default mode and the bluntest one. It searches the entire image and erases all the text it locates, so a screenshot with a timestamp, a subtitle and a caption loses all three in a single pass. The input box below the chips narrows this: type an exact word or phrase, up to 100 characters, and only that text is targeted. Leave the box empty and everything comes off.
That default is the trap. A photo with a shop sign, a street name or a welcome notice is full of text the model will happily remove, and the result is a cleaner picture with the sense stripped out of it. Check the frame before a whole-image pass, or name the single phrase you want gone.
Icons and logos targets marks, not letters
This mode looks for logos and badges rather than words, which suits a screenshot with an app icon in the corner or a draft carrying a placeholder badge. It is a recognition-based pass, not a box you control, so a mark the model does not recognise, or one drawn in an unusual style, can survive the run. There is no field to name a specific logo the way Text lets you name a phrase.
Selected area rebuilds whatever you cover
Selected area is the manual option and the only one that handles objects which are neither text nor logos: a passer by, a cable, a bin or a blemish. You drag a box on the preview and everything the box covers is rebuilt from the surrounding texture. The catch is literal. The model does not know what sits inside the box, so it erases the whole rectangle, object and background alike, and paints fresh texture over it.
What the two selection sliders actually mean
Under Selected area there are two sliders, labelled Area width and Area height. They are not a strength, a blur amount or a transparency setting, and they say nothing about how aggressively the repair works. They set the size of the selection box as a share of the image. Area width at 40 percent makes the box 40 percent as wide as the frame, and Area height at 30 percent makes it 30 percent as tall, which is the default pairing: a rectangle covering a little over a tenth of the picture.
Both sliders run from 2 percent to 100 percent. The rectangle keeps its centre as the size changes and is clamped so it cannot run past the edges of the image, and dragging on the preview moves the box and writes the new size back into the two sliders. The numbers describe geometry, not effect.
Your image is uploaded, unlike our other tools
This is the section that should change how you use the tool. Of the thirty-two tools on Aihangsoft, twenty-eight run entirely inside your browser: a file is read from your disk into page memory, processed there, and handed back as a download, with nothing transmitted. The other four are Cloud AI tools, and the Image Eraser is one of them. It cannot work the local way, because the erase model is far too large to run inside a browser tab. The image is uploaded to our server and forwarded to Volcengine AI MediaKit for processing.
| The 28 browser tools | This image eraser | |
|---|---|---|
| Where your file goes | Stays on your device | Uploaded to our server |
| What processes it | Your browser, using Canvas and WebAssembly | Volcengine AI MediaKit, a cloud AI service |
| How long it is kept | Not stored at all | Result deleted from the server 30 minutes after processing |
| Account | Never needed | Not required, but signing in raises the daily limit |
| Works offline | Yes, after the first load | No |
Thirty minutes is a retention window, not a promise about logs, backups or the third-party service behind it. Apply the rule you would apply to any online converter: do not upload passport scans, medical images, unreleased client work, contracts or anything you would not email to a stranger. A product shot, a travel photo, a screenshot you own or a picture you are cleaning up for your own listings is a reasonable trade.
How to erase an object in three steps
- Add your image. Drop a PNG, JPG, WebP, TIFF, BMP or HEIC file of up to 10 MB into the upload area. Dimensions are capped at 2560 by 1440 px, and there is no automatic downscaling, so a larger photo has to be resized first; the image compressor does that on your device. A guest adds one image, a free account three, and Pro ten per run.
- Pick a mode and aim it. Use Text for captions and watermarks, and type the exact phrase if you want to spare the rest. Use Icons and logos for marks, and Selected area for anything else, dragging the box and setting the two sliders to the size you need. Then press Erase and repair.
- Compare and download. The result panel puts the original and the repair behind a draggable slider so the join can be checked at the same size. Save the file before you leave, because the server keeps it for only 30 minutes.
A run costs one credit, and the allowance is small, so it pays to set the mode correctly rather than iterating through guesses. Nothing is destructive: your original file is untouched, and the comparison slider shows exactly what changed.
When you should not erase something
This is the line the tool draws in its own interface, and it is worth stating without hedging. A watermark, a signature, a photographer credit or a stock photo mark is normally someone's claim on a work, not a defect in it. Erasing it is not a cleanup task, it is a rights problem, and the tool cannot tell the difference for you.
Three cases are clearly fine. A watermark you added to your own draft and now want gone. A sample mark on an image you have since licensed for full use. Old branding on a product photo you own and are republishing. Everything else sits on the other side of the line: if the picture belongs to someone else, removing a copyright mark or a stock watermark may be illegal where you live and can expose you to a claim.
There is a quieter case too. A photo that is technically yours but carries someone else's credit, for example a shot a photographer took for you, is not yours to strip. Ask them, or keep the credit. The tool is a repair kit, not a way around a licence.
What this eraser cannot do
These are the honest limits, and several of them are the reason people end up disappointed with an otherwise capable tool.
- It is not a private, on-device tool. The twenty-eight browser tools keep files on your machine. This one uploads them, and that is a design constraint rather than an oversight.
- The free allowance is small. One run per day as a guest, five credits per day once signed in. It is built for occasional cleanup, not for a photo archive.
- It does not repair everything. The area under the selection is rebuilt from the surrounding texture, so complex backgrounds with fine patterns, strong gradients or several objects meeting at one point can keep a visible trace. It is not a seamless, invisible fix in every case.
- Text mode is all or nothing per pass. It erases every piece of text it finds unless you name one exact phrase, so signage, labels and captions come off together.
- It cannot check whether you have the rights. The tool will erase a protected watermark as readily as your own draft mark, so the responsibility is entirely yours.
- 10 MB and 2560 by 1440 px are hard caps. There is no automatic downscaling, so an oversized file is refused rather than quietly shrunk.
- Results are temporary. The server keeps a result for 30 minutes and then deletes it, so there is no later re-download.
- It removes rather than replaces. There is no brush for touching up a missed spot and no way to swap a background. Isolating a subject is a different job, handled by the background remover.
AI Background Remover
Removing a background is the opposite job to erasing an object: it cuts the subject out and leaves transparency, rather than filling a hole. Also a Cloud AI tool.