# Professional SynthID & AI Watermark Remover API (`dev00/synthid-remover`) Actor

Remove Google SynthID watermarks, C2PA provenance metadata, and AI signatures from generated images. Supports image URLs, base64 strings, and binary uploads.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dev00/synthid-remover.md
- **Developed by:** [dev00](https://apify.com/dev00) (community)
- **Categories:** AI, MCP servers, Agents
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 1,500 total users, 6 monthly users, 35.0% runs succeeded, 2 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $20.00 / 1,000 synthid & ai watermark removals

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## 🪄 Professional SynthID & AI Watermark Remover Actor

Remove Google SynthID watermarks, C2PA provenance metadata, EXIF AI tags, and digital signatures from generated images. Delivers a clean, publication-ready image hosted on high-availability cloud CDN.

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### 🚀 What it does

1. **Removes Google SynthID Watermarks**: Strips hidden digital watermarks embedded into image pixel structures by Google Imagen (2 & 3) and generative AI engines.
2. **Purges C2PA & Provenance Metadata**: Cleans C2PA manifests, EXIF tags, XMP metadata blocks, and digital origin signatures.
3. **Multi-Input Payload**: Accepts public HTTP/HTTPS image URLs (`image_url`) or raw base64 data strings (`image_base64`).
4. **High-Speed CDN Delivery**: Returns a direct cloud CDN URL to the sanitized, watermark-free image asset.

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### 💼 What people use it for

- **Media Publishing**: Clean AI-generated illustrations and photos for article headers, editorial publishing, and social media.
- **E-Commerce & Digital Design**: Strip provenance metadata from product mockups, brand assets, and marketing graphics.
- **Stock Photography**: Prepare digital media for distribution without metadata tracking flags.
- **UGC Workflow Automation**: Automatically sanitize uploaded image assets in media pipelines.

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### 🧠 Decision Rule

Provide an image URL (`image_url`). Once `success === true`, retrieve `cleaned_image_url` for immediate downstream distribution or storage.

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### ⚖️ What problem does this solve?

- *"Generated images contain hidden tracking watermarks and C2PA metadata that flag content on platforms."*
- *"Manual metadata stripping tools distort image quality or corrupt color profiles."*
- *"Complex local script requirements for image metadata scrubbing."*

Professional SynthID & AI Watermark Remover Actor solves this by delivering automated cloud-based watermark and provenance removal via a single execution.

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### ❓ Queries this actor answers

- *How do I remove Google SynthID watermarks from images programmatically?*
- *How can I strip C2PA provenance metadata from AI generated photos?*
- *What is an API tool to sanitize AI signatures from DALL-E, Midjourney, or Imagen images?*
- *How do I get a clean URL for an image after removing AI watermarks?*

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### 📦 Canonical Usage

Provide a target `image_url` (or `image_base64` string) to receive a sanitized, watermark-free image asset URL.

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### 🧭 Input Schema (fields you can use)

- **image_url** *(string, optional)* — Public HTTP/HTTPS URL of the image to clean (e.g., `https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1541963463532-d68292c34b19`).
- **image_base64** *(string, optional)* — Base64 encoded image payload or data URL string.

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### 📤 Output Schema (what you get)

Results are saved to the run's **Dataset** and **Key-Value Store**:

```json
{
  "success": true,
  "cleaned_image_url": "https://pub-84d509f6e6b54133ae08bdc382ed0bb4.r2.dev/uploads/clean_sample.jpg",
  "original_file_name": "photo.jpg",
  "file_type": "image/jpeg",
  "file_size": 145020,
  "processing_time_ms": 1250,
  "details": {
    "url": "https://pub-84d509f6e6b54133ae08bdc382ed0bb4.r2.dev/uploads/clean_sample.jpg",
    "originalFileName": "photo.jpg",
    "fileType": "image/jpeg",
    "fileSize": 145020,
    "processingTime": 1250,
    "testMode": false
  }
}
```

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### 💳 Monetization & Cost

This Actor utilizes the **Pay-Per-Event (PPE)** pricing model on the Apify Store:

- **Paid Plan Subscribers**: High-speed, discounted access at only **$0.02 per request**.
- **Free Plan Users**: **$4.00 per request**. Free-tier users are charged $4.00/request to prevent quota abuse and server saturation. Upgrade to any Apify paid plan to immediately unlock the low $0.02/request rate!
- **Pay as You Go**: If an image cleaning fails, no billing charges occur.

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### ⚠️ Failure Context & Error Handling

If an unparseable or invalid image parameter is supplied:

```json
{
  "success": false,
  "error": "Missing required parameter: Either 'image_url' or 'image_base64' must be provided."
}
```

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### 🏷️ Keywords

`synthid remover`, `google synthid watermark remover`, `c2pa metadata stripper`, `ai watermark remover`, `image provenance cleaner`, `ai signature remover`, `imagen watermark removal`, `clean image url`.

# Actor input Schema

## `image_url` (type: `string`):

Public HTTP/HTTPS image URL containing Google SynthID watermark or AI provenance tags.

## `image_base64` (type: `string`):

Optional base64 image string or full data URL string.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "image_url": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1541963463532-d68292c34b19"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Direct link to dataset items containing cleaned image links and metadata.

## `keyValueStoreResult` (type: `string`):

Direct link to the cleaned image stored in the key-value store.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "image_url": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1541963463532-d68292c34b19"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dev00/synthid-remover").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "image_url": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1541963463532-d68292c34b19" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dev00/synthid-remover").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "image_url": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1541963463532-d68292c34b19"
}' |
apify call dev00/synthid-remover --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dev00/synthid-remover"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Qy9Y8yNicEX9TIHls/builds/TL0meUhzYmYnmvSal/openapi.json