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No. 08 — AI Tools · Cloud HDPro · on our GPU

Date stamp, gone, the corner repaired.

Those orange digits in the bottom-right corner were printed by your own camera, and they are one of the easiest things an inpainting model handles. Cover them with the brush and the corner behind them comes back.

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Remove a date stampCloud HD · our GPU

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How it works

  1. Pick the photo or scan — JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 25 MB and 24 megapixels.
  2. Draw one rectangle over the full stamp, taking a few pixels of clearance so the bright halo around the digits goes too.
  3. PowerPaint continues the corner underneath and returns a PNG at the original resolution. One of the 10 monthly HD runs.

This page is the object remover, tuned to a camera’s own imprint on your own photograph.

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Remove a Date Stamp from a Photo — Pro, on our server

A quartz date is a small, bright, well-behaved problem. Cameras from the late eighties through the early two-thousands exposed the day, month and year straight into the frame in a hard orange seven-segment face, almost always in a corner and almost always over something dull — sky above a rooftop, tarmac beside a car, the flat green of a lawn. Every one of those characteristics helps. The masked region is a few hundred pixels of a many-megapixel frame; it is surrounded on all sides by continuous surface; and the surface itself carries no structure that has to line up. That combination is where PowerPaint is at its most convincing, and the corner usually comes back with nothing at all to see.

Mask the glow, not just the glyphs. The single reliable way to get a poor result here is to trace the digits precisely. That imprint was burned in bright enough to bloom, so a soft warm halo extends several pixels past every stroke, and the anti-aliased edge of each character sits inside it. Remove only what is unmistakably orange and the fill will average towards the halo you left, giving a faint rectangular warmth exactly where the date used to be — often more noticeable than the digits, since the eye reads a smudge as a defect and a date as a fact. One clean rectangle with generous clearance solves it. If the stamp straddles the frame edge, run the mask right off the edge of the picture; there is no penalty for painting past the border.

There are two dates on a photograph, and this page only handles one. The printed digits live in the pixels. The capture date the camera recorded lives in the file’s EXIF block, along with the camera model, the lens, the exposure and often GPS coordinates — invisible on screen, and read by every platform you upload to. If your reason for removing the visible date is that you would rather not publish when a picture was taken, the visible one is only half the job. The free on-device EXIF remover strips the rest in your browser with no upload at all, keeping the orientation flag so the picture still stands the right way up. Do the pixels here, do the metadata there.

Order of work on an old print, and the terms of the run. If the stamp is on a scan, remove it first: every later step reads the picture you hand it, and a clean corner keeps a bright artificial orange out of the input to face restoration or colour work. Damage on the print itself — a crease, a stain, a torn corner — is a different mask and a different page, covered by scratch removal and the general object remover. This tool is Cloud HD: Pro-only, opt-in, run on our GPU in the United States, with your photo and mask encrypted in transit, deleted when the run finishes and in all cases within 24 hours, and never used to train anything. Pro includes 150 runs a month on Monthly and 200 on Annual, of which 10 may be HD runs.

How it works

  1. Open the date-stamp remover: Go to minipx.com/remove-date-stamp-from-photo, signed in to Pro.
  2. Upload the photo or the scan: JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 25 MB and 24 megapixels, encrypted in transit and used for this run only.
  3. Draw a rectangle over the whole stamp: Cover every digit plus a few pixels of clearance so the bright halo around the characters goes too.
  4. Run it, then strip the hidden date as well: Download the PNG, then pass it through the on-device EXIF remover if you also want the capture date out of the file.

Frequently asked questions

Which kind of date stamp does this page mean?
The one your own camera printed into the picture: the orange or yellow quartz-date digits a compact or point-and-shoot burned into the bottom-right corner, and the same imprint carried through when you scan a print from that era. It is your photograph and your camera’s mark on it. Digits are among the easiest things inpainting handles.
Why do I sometimes get a faint orange haze where the digits were?
Because the imprint is brighter than it looks. Those characters were exposed onto the film or sensor and they bleed a soft halo into the pixels around them, so a mask cut tight to each digit leaves the halo behind and the fill blends towards it. Sweep a rectangle over the whole stamp with several pixels of clearance and the haze goes with it.
Does this also remove the date stored inside the file?
No — those are two separate dates. The digits you can see were burned into the pixels; the capture date recorded by the camera lives in the file’s EXIF block, invisible until something reads it. Strip that with the free on-device EXIF remover, which also clears GPS coordinates and camera details without uploading the file anywhere.
What if the stamp falls over something detailed instead of plain sky?
Corners are usually kind — sky, sand, grass, tarmac, a wall — and those fill invisibly. A stamp lying across a face, a patterned rug or dense foliage is harder, because the model has to reconstruct structure rather than continue a surface. In that case mask the digits in two or three shorter strokes and check each result before accepting it.
Can it clear the imprint from a scan of a printed photograph?
Yes, and a scan behaves the same as any other upload. Scan at 600 DPI for a small print, crop the scanner bed away first, and remove the stamp before any restoration step — a clean corner gives every later pass a simpler picture to read. Physical damage on the print is a separate job from the printed date.
What is the cost and where does the file go?
Date-stamp removal is a Cloud HD run: Pro-only, opt-in, processed on our GPU in the United States because the model cannot run in a browser. The photo and mask are encrypted in transit and deleted when the run finishes and in all cases within 24 hours, never used to train anything. Pro allows 10 HD runs a month; a failed run is free.