Those orange digits from a 1998 film camera, or the white stamp from an early digicam. One upload, one pass, the background rebuilt around where they were.
Everyone tries the clone stamp first. It is the reason old family photos end up with a smudged orange rectangle in the corner.
You have to copy pixels from somewhere nearby. Over a plain wall that works. Over a face, a fence or a beach, you are pasting the wrong texture and the eye finds it instantly.
A scan of a 1998 print has grain, dust and paper texture. The healing brush averages all of it into a smooth patch, so the corner looks cleaner than the rest of the photo — a different kind of giveaway.
A box of holiday photos means the same correction fifty times, each with a different background behind the digits. That is an afternoon lost to one orange number.
PixPurge does the opposite: it reads the area as text, removes the glyphs, then rebuilds the background from the pixels around them — grain, gradient and all.
The text remover on the home page is the date stamp remover — same upload box, same one button.
JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC up to 10MB. Press Remove Text. Scan at 300 dpi or better if you can — more pixels means a better fill behind the digits.
Save the cleaned copy beside the untouched file. For family archives, the original scan is the record; the cleaned one is what you print and share.
They all look like a date in the corner. Only three of them are pixels in the image.
Orange LED date, 1990s–2000s film cameras
Burned into the negative by the camera's data back. On a scan it shows as segmented orange digits. This is the classic case and the one the tool handles best.
White or yellow digital overlay, early digital cameras
Printed into the JPEG by the camera firmware, usually bottom right, sometimes with a time as well. Same treatment — it is baked into the pixels.
"Shot on [phone]" captions
A modern variant: the camera app stamps a model name and logo into the corner. Text plus a small mark, so it comes off in one pass like any caption.
EXIF date — not in the picture at all
Metadata stored inside the file. If the date only shows up in a photo viewer's info panel, there is nothing to erase from the image: PixPurge works on pixels and leaves metadata alone. Use a metadata editor for that, and remember that many platforms strip it on upload anyway.
The usual reason people want the stamp gone is not aesthetic. That date says exactly when and often where a picture was taken, and it ends up in a frame on a wall, a memorial print, a wedding slideshow or a public post.
It also dates the photo in a way that pulls attention: a 1998 print with huge orange digits reads as "old snapshot" before anyone looks at the faces.
Scan a batch at 300–600 dpi, clean each one, and keep both versions. The cleaned file is for printing and sharing; the original is the archival record.
Archive checklist
Before: four orange digits sitting over the bottom-right corner, grain visible around them. After: the digits gone, the grain and the gradient of the surface running straight through where they were. Nothing else in the frame moves — same crop, same colour cast of an ageing print, same resolution.
Where the stamp sits on a busy background — foliage, brickwork, a patterned shirt — expect a slightly softer patch. That is true of any method, ours included.
Upload the scan, run one pass, download. Ten free credits on a new account, no card needed to try it.
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