> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://koharu.rs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Clean up source lettering

> Use inpainting and precise manual masks to remove lettering while preserving artwork.

Inpainting reconstructs the artwork beneath source text. A precise removal region usually matters more than a larger model.

## Review automatic cleanup

Detection produces a removal mask. Inpainting uses it to create derived artwork; without a mask, the stage completes without inference.

Inspect the result at normal reading size and high zoom. Look for glyph fragments, missed punctuation or furigana, erased bubble borders, repeated textures, smeared screentone, and changes outside the lettering.

## Repair a missed region

<Steps>
  <Step title="Paint a removal mask">
    Choose **Remove**, set the brush diameter, and cover only the source marks that need
    reconstruction. Use controlled strokes and avoid neighboring line art. Cancel the gesture if the
    mask is wrong.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Run inpainting">
    Finish the gesture and run inpainting for the current page. Include enough of each glyph for the
    model to remove it without covering an entire bubble unnecessarily.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Touch up and inspect">
    Use **Color picker**, **Brush**, and **Eraser** for small deterministic corrections. Check the
    result again at normal zoom.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Stopping a processing job does not turn its temporary removal mask into visible artwork.

## Choose a model

**LaMa** and **AOT** provide direct inpainting. **FLUX.2 Klein** and **RORem Mixed** are generative alternatives with prompt controls and larger resource requirements. See [vision and inpainting models](/en/models/vision).

<Warning>
  Rerunning inpainting replaces derived cleanup in the selected scope. Keep manual touch-ups on
  their own authored raster layer.
</Warning>