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AI old photo restorer

Enhance blurry, faded, or damaged old photos with AI. Auto-detects scratches, cracks, and tears for repair, sharpens faces, and upscales to high resolution.

No watermarkFree & unlimited
Processed on our servers and deleted right after. Never stored or shared.

About this tool

  1. 1

    Upload an old photo

    Upload a scanned or digitised old photo — JPG, PNG, or WebP up to 10 MB.

  2. 2

    Choose restoration options

    Enable physical damage repair (scratches/cracks/tears), face enhancement (PMRF), and/or AI upscaling (Real-ESRGAN, 1×–4×).

  3. 3

    AI restores the photo

    Damage is detected and inpainted, faces are sharpened, and the result is upscaled in a single pass.

  4. 4

    Compare & download

    Drag the before/after slider to see the difference, then download the restored image.

  • Enable "Repair physical damage" for photos with scratches, cracks, or tears — uses LaMa inpainting after auto-detecting the damage.
  • For scanned prints, rotate and crop the photo first so the AI focuses on the subject.
  • Turn face enhancement off for landscapes or object photos — it's tuned for human faces.
  • Use 4× upscaling only on photos smaller than 1024×1024. Larger inputs can be slow to process.
  • Black-and-white photos stay monochrome. Run the colorizer on the restored output to add colour.
  • Scratch & tear repair (BOPB + LaMa)
  • PMRF face enhance
  • Real-ESRGAN upscaling
  • Up to 4× resolution
  • Before/after slider
  • PNG output
  • Free & unlimited
  • Restore family photos before printing or framing.
  • Prepare old portraits for memorial slideshows.
  • Recover detail from blurry scans of historical documents.
  • Enhance low-resolution profile pictures.

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