sanster/iopaint

IOPaint is a free, open-source image editing tool that uses AI to remove or replace things in photos. The core feature is "inpainting", you paint over an area of an image with a brush (creating a "mask"), and the AI fills it in seamlessly, either removing the object entirely or replacing it with something new. The problem it solves is that removing unwanted elements from photos, a person in the background, a watermark, a blemish, or an object, used to require skilled manual editing in tools like Photoshop. IOPaint does this automatically using state-of-the-art AI models. You can erase objects so the background fills in naturally, replace them with different objects by typing a text description, draw text into images, or extend images beyond their original edges. You would use this if you want to clean up photos, remove distracting elements, create product images with clean backgrounds, or experiment with AI image editing without paying for cloud services. It runs entirely on your own computer, supporting CPU, NVIDIA GPU, and Apple Silicon, through a browser-based interface. It can also process images in bulk via the command line. The tool is written in Python and supports multiple AI models for different tasks.