Changing words is two jobs, done in order
Editing the text in a picture means first making the old words disappear without a trace, and then putting new words in their place so they look as if they had always been there. Most tools do one half. An eraser leaves you with an empty space and no way to fill it; a text tool lets you type on top, so the old words show through or you end up hiding them under a coloured box. This page runs both halves in the same editor, one after the other, and keeps them as two separate steps in the history so either can be undone.
Step one: erasing the old text cleanly
The Text finder locates lettering by its shape — strokes with sharp edges, grouped into words and lines — and never reads it. Click the block you want to change and its glyphs are selected with a small margin for their soft edges. When you press Erase, the editor looks at the ring of background around the letters first. Posters, menus, slides, screenshots and banners usually sit on a flat colour or a smooth gradient, and for those the flat-fill solver fits the surface — a constant, a linear ramp, or a gentle curve, per colour channel — and paints the fit back with the same grain as the surround. It needs no download, takes a few milliseconds, and on a flat colour the result is the background itself, not an imitation of it. When the background is a photograph or a texture, the solver steps aside and the local AI or the texture engine rebuilds it, exactly as on Remove text from image.
Step two: a text layer in the same place
As soon as the erase finishes, a text box appears over the area the old words occupied. Before erasing, the editor measured three things from the original pixels: the height of the lowercase letters (or the capitals, for all-caps lettering), from which it sets the starting font size; the colour of the strongest glyph pixels, which becomes the starting text colour; and the angle of the line, so slanted signage gets slanted text. The font is your decision. There are six, all served from this site under the SIL Open Font License: a neutral sans, a serif, a condensed face for posters, a slab, a handwriting face and Noto Sans Devanagari for Hindi and Marathi. Weight, letter spacing, alignment, an outline and a soft shadow cover the rest.
The layer stays live while you adjust it — type, change the font, nudge the size — and becomes pixels only when you press Apply text, keep the result or download. Pixels the new text does not touch keep their exact values.
Use it on your own material
This is for your own posters, menus, price boards, slides, social graphics and mock-ups. Do not use it to alter documents, certificates, mark sheets, identity papers or anybody else's work. If the old text sits on a busy photo rather than a flat background, the rebuilt area may need a second look; Photo cleanup explains how to work in smaller pieces.