How to Use Blur License Plates in Photo
- Upload a photo (JPG, PNG, or WebP)
- Pick a privacy strength — solid color, pixelate, or soft blur
- Click Process — the AI finds every plate and redacts them
- Download the anonymized photo
Features
- Three privacy modes — solid color (maximum), pixelate (mosaic), or soft Gaussian blur
- Auto-detects every license plate — no clicking, no selection
- Tight per-plate redaction — adjacent cars don't merge into one giant blob
- Numbers completely unreadable, rest of the car stays sharp
- Works on JPG, PNG, WebP — outputs clean PNG
- No sign-up, no watermark on the output
Frequently Asked Questions
- What's the difference between solid, pixelate, and soft blur?
- Solid fills each plate with a flat black bar — strongest privacy, zero detail leaks through, looks intentional. Pixelate applies mosaic blocks — the classic 'reality TV' look. Soft blur is the lightest touch — shape and color stay, characters are obscured. Solid is the default because plate numbers are short and a soft blur can sometimes leave them partially legible.
- Will it blur the whole car or just the plate?
- Just the plate. We tuned the dilation to 4px specifically so adjacent cars in a parking lot don't get merged into one giant blob — each plate gets its own tight redaction.
- What if the plate is at a weird angle?
- Our AI handles oblique angles fine — the detection works on plates viewed from the side, top, partial occlusion, etc. The redaction follows the plate's actual pixel mask, not a bounding box, so angled plates get angled blur.
- What if no plates are detected?
- If the AI finds no plates, the original image is returned unchanged and no credits are charged.