EraseText API

Official docs, OpenAPI spec, Python SDK, and agent tools for EraseText — a specialised AI text remover for photos and graphics. It erases lettering and the glow, stroke, and shadow that came with it, then rebuilds the plate underneath.

This repository is the public developer surface. The product itself lives at erasetext.com. Canonical HTTP docs: erasetext.com/docs/api.

Try it

• Editor (free to erase; full-res download uses credits): erasetext.com/upload

• HTTP API: https://api.erasetext.com/v1

• MCP: https://api.erasetext.com/mcp

• First API key includes a 50-credit trial, no card.

Create a key under Account → Developer.

curl -X POST \
  -H "X-Api-Key: et_…" \
  -F "image_file=@photo.jpg" \
  "https://api.erasetext.com/v1/erase" \
  -o out.webp

Omit the mask to detect and erase all text. White pixels (channel >127) in a mask mark what to erase.

Related MCP server: Poof Background Removal MCP Server

Python SDK

pip install erasetext
# optional agent extras
pip install 'erasetext[langchain]'
pip install 'erasetext[llamaindex]'

from erasetext import EraseText

client = EraseText()  # reads ERASETEXT_API_KEY
image = client.erase(image_path="photo.jpg")
Path("out.webp").write_bytes(image)

erase() spends 1 credit on success. Failures and account() are free. Do not send size or engine — both are retired and return 400.

MCP

Remote Streamable HTTP. Same key, same billing as the HTTP API.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "erasetext": {
      "url": "https://api.erasetext.com/mcp",
      "headers": { "X-Api-Key": "et_…" }
    }
  }
}

Tools: erase_text (1 credit on success), get_account (free).

• Manifest: https://api.erasetext.com/.well-known/mcp.json

• Docs: https://erasetext.com/docs/api/#mcp

• Registry file in this repo: server.json

LangChain

from erasetext.langchain import EraseTextToolkit

tools = EraseTextToolkit().get_tools()
# tools: erase_text, get_erasetext_account

Requires pip install 'erasetext[langchain]'.

LlamaIndex

from erasetext.llamaindex import EraseTextToolSpec

tools = EraseTextToolSpec().to_tool_list()

Requires pip install 'erasetext[llamaindex]'.

Specs

Links

• Product: https://erasetext.com

• API docs: https://erasetext.com/docs/api/

• Developers / prepaid credits: https://erasetext.com/g/developers/

• Help: https://erasetext.com/help/

• Terms: https://erasetext.com/legal/terms/

Operated by Morling, LLC. The SDK and specs in this repository are MIT; the hosted erase service is a commercial product.