Unblur text: clearer text, easier reading

Compression, missed focus and low-resolution scans can blend neighboring strokes together. Text enhancement works with the visible shapes to make letter boundaries easier to inspect. It may reconstruct a plausible character rather than faithfully recover the original one.

The input remains an image of a page, screenshot or label. Check margins, line breaks and surrounding graphics along with the text: paper tone, fonts and small marks can change. A readable result still needs comparison with the source.

Choose Standard for a lower-cost readability pass or Pro for a larger image to inspect, crop, present or print. Standard supports up to 2K and Pro up to 4K; additional pixels do not guarantee correct letters.

Start with writing that is soft but still partly recognizable: screenshots, scanned reports, meeting notes, receipts, product labels and photographed notices. Very small characters and strong motion smears give the model less reliable information.

Visual enhancement and plain-text extraction are separate tasks. The Extract text mode is for content you want to review and reuse in notes, a spreadsheet or a translation workflow; its rate is 1 credit per image.

Compare any extracted text with the original and the enhanced image. For example, a handwritten “7D” might be interpreted as “70”, or a faint decimal point might disappear. A second reading that agrees with the first can still share the same mistake.

• Review the original image beside the text before copying it into another document.
• Check names, amounts, dates, decimal separators and reference numbers character by character.
• Keep uncertain characters marked as uncertain. Do not turn a plausible reading into a claim of accuracy.

Focus on readability while checking that the document still represents the same source.

• More defined letter strokes: inspect fine outlines and neighboring characters that have blended together.
• Cleaner character edges: reduce the visual distraction of softness and compression around small type.
• Page-wide review: compare tables, margins and surrounding illustrations, because a model can change fonts or marks.
• Higher-resolution inspection: use Pro output up to 4K for detailed review, slide layouts or printing.

Choose a use case that matches your source, then verify its most consequential details.

• Chat and app screenshots: review message text, subtitles, interface labels and timestamps softened by forwarding or scaling.
• Research papers and scans: inspect paragraphs, footnotes, tables and citations in an exported page image.
• Handwritten and classroom notes: compare joined letters, annotations, arrows and small diagrams with the original page.
• Receipts and invoices: verify totals, tax figures and transaction identifiers against the original record.
• Packaging and product labels: inspect small print and specifications. Verify any health or safety instruction using the actual label.
• Posters and newspaper clippings: inspect lines photographed from a distance or angle, and keep an unedited copy for comparison.

Prepare the source before uploading and make verification part of the edit.

• Crop a copy around the relevant paragraph or label so unnecessary background does not dominate the image.
• Use the original screenshot or camera photo instead of a thumbnail or repeatedly compressed download.
• Photograph paper flat under even light. Retain the color source for faint pencil or thermal-print details.
• Read any extracted text word by word. Compare every important number and code with the source, including text that looks confident.

• Redacted or deliberately pixelated text cannot be reliably recovered. New characters in an obscured region are guesses.
• An enhanced image is a readability aid. Keep original records and verify consequential legal or financial details independently.
• The visual result is an image, not an editable Word document. Extracted text needs the same accuracy checks as the image.
• Files are not retained permanently: AI uploads, outputs and links expire within 24 hours. Download what you want to keep.