Remove Text From Manga Pages

Scanlation teams, typesetters and manga hobbyists all share the same chore: the lettering has to go before the new text goes in. Cleaning a manga page by hand means white-out on speech bubbles, clone-stamping screentones, and rebuilding sound-effect lettering that crosses art. DeleteText exists to make that step nearly automatic — you brush the lettering, AI rebuilds the bubbles, tones and line art underneath, and the page comes back ready for typesetting.

Speech bubbles are the friendly case: white interiors erase almost perfectly, and even stylized bubble edges are reconstructed cleanly because the model can see the bubble boundary all around the text. Sound effects are the hard case — hand-lettered onomatopoeia woven into the art, often overlapping characters, speed lines and screentones. Treat them region by region: a pass along the main strokes, then a small-brush pass along the edges where lettering meets linework. Two light passes preserve the line art far better than one aggressive selection.

A note on what this page is and is not. It is a tool page for people cleaning pages they have the rights to edit — your own comics, licensed projects, public-domain material, or practice pages. It is not an invitation to pirate; use it accordingly. With that said, the workflow is the same for everyone: upload the page (JPG/PNG up to 20 MB), brush the lettering, erase at 1 credit per pass, and download the clean page for your typesetting software.

Panel-precise tools help on dense pages: zoom in for furigana and small marginal notes, use the 4-pixel brush for thin lettering, and trim stray strokes with the eraser. Because every erase is versioned, you can clean a page in stages — bubbles first, then effects — and compare versions if a rebuild loses a line you needed.

New accounts get 5 free credits, which is enough to clean a couple of test pages end to end before spending anything. If DeleteText fits your pipeline, Pro at 600 credits for $9.9 covers a lot of chapters. Clean your first page and see whether the bubbles come back as clean as the day they were drawn.