Scratcher

Scratch the watermark off. Hidden AI fingerprints out of your text and images — all in your browser.

Scratched

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Clean text. Clean files.
No trace.

AI output ships with fingerprints you can’t see — zero-width characters buried in the prose, EXIF and C2PA manifests stamped into the pixels. Scratcher finds them, shows you exactly where they were hiding, and hands back a clean copy.

Scrubbing runs in your browser · deep rewrite is opt-in
Layer B · deep rewrite

Rewrite the word choice too.

Invisible characters are only half the story. The deepest watermarks live in which words the model picked — there’s no character to delete. This pass sends your scratched text through Gemini to re-express it in different words, resampling the token stream and disturbing that statistical signal. Runs on our server, not in your browser.

No detector — text or image — can promise every checker passes or fails. Scratcher does the removable work and is honest about the rest.

What it scratches off

Four kinds of fingerprint.

Every scrub happens in your browser — open the network tab and watch nothing leave.

Text

Invisible Unicode

Zero-width spaces, joiners, soft hyphens, variation selectors, tag characters, bidi controls — the classic places to hide a watermark in plain text. Emoji sequences are left intact.

Text

Space & punctuation camouflage

Narrow no-break spaces, hair spaces, ideographic spaces and friends get swapped for a plain space. Optionally normalize curly quotes, em dashes and ellipses too.

Images

EXIF · XMP · IPTC

Camera data, GPS coordinates, editing history, generator tags and Photoshop records — stripped from JPEG and PNG losslessly, with a full report of what was found.

Images

C2PA Content Credentials

Provenance manifests (JUMBF / caBX) that AI image tools embed to mark output as generated. Detected, named, and removed from the file.

The honest fine print: some AI text watermarks live in word choice itself — statistical patterns in which tokens the model picked. No stripper can delete those, because there’s no byte to delete; only rewriting changes them. Scratcher removes everything that’s actually removable, and tells you exactly what it did.
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