Released In Photo AI v3.1.0 | Feature Request | Preserve Text Model Update

Photo AI Ideas
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Hello. I think a great addition would be text improvement. Similar to Face AI, but geared towards improving text on images. It usually happens that low resolution text turns out jagged, or even further mangled by the normal processing - sometimes the artifacts are more subtle, like swirls of colour inside a solid or gradient fill text. This would also set Photo AI further apart from the competition

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This is in active development and an initial version is currently in the latest beta release. If you would like to try it out, you can apply to be included in the beta testing group here. We are actively seeking any feedback on this feature.

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I’d put a +1 here for this. I shoot airshows and planes a lot, and if I use sharpen then the text on planes, their serial numbers etc often end up looking odd.

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Just requested to be added! Thank you!

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Hi, The Topaz team are working on it I’ve included an except from the Roadmap page

Feature Roadmap

We’re now actively working on:

  • Adding a Refine Text filter that applies a mild deblur and removes artifacts from detected text.
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Text is not able to be improved at all. The original image is better than the Preserve Text or any other option.

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I was trying to enhance an image so I could read some text in an image and while Topaz works great for other things, text did not work at all. It would be a very nice feature.

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We are actually working on a text recovery model! It’s in Beta right now, but keep an eye out for it in a future release.

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Sweet!

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I use Topaz AI for race cars. There are lots of small sponsor stickers with small text. The small text ends up looking like letters from the Greek alphabet after processing. I agree it would be a nice improvement if text processing/recovery would be added to the software.

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I’ll second this. I use Photo AI for action shots of motorbikes. It works well for the overall picture, but the text and logos on the bikes, hemets, jackets, etc comes out very rough and almost metallic looking.

The text recovery model metioned by @preston.werner sounds like it could be what we need! Can’t wait! :slight_smile:

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It would be great for Enhance if there was automatic text recognition.

This would make the work of mass image processing much easier.

Unfortunately, the AI models have no understanding of text.

And if it were trained with text, there would always be the possibility that it would create letters somewhere instead of normal pixels.

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Thanks for the idea and suggestion! Make sure that you do not forget to vote for your idea :slight_smile:

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Hello @roberto.avanzi and everyone!

We have released today in our v3.1.0 a major improvement on our Preserve Text enhancement, and would like you to test it and let us know if you have any feedback :slight_smile:

You will be able to download this update from your app directly or by using the following link here:

Here is the full list of changes/fixes done on this release. Please let us know if you have any issues in updating to this version!

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Is there a beta group for a similar feature for video?

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Yes, the TVAi team has added you on it now. You can see the beta group here: https://community.topazlabs.com/c/video-ai/video-ai-beta/83

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I would love a text enhancement. The Graphics category (or any other setting) doesn’t do a great job at all. Thanks.

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There will be a Text recovery model coming soon. :grinning: