Tap to import a scan — or drop a file here, or paste from the clipboard.
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Tap to import a scan — or drop a file here, or paste from the clipboard.
A quiet editor for cleaning up scans of etchings and engravings. Everything runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded, and nothing is saved unless you export.
Tap the + to open a scan. You can also drop a file onto the workspace or paste from the clipboard at any time — including to replace the current image. Export PNG saves your work with transparency preserved, so erased areas stay clear.
| Hand H | Drag to move around the image. |
| Magic wand W | Tap a tone to delete it. Raise the tolerance to catch more; turn on Everywhere to remove that tone across the whole image — ideal for stripping aged paper backgrounds. |
| Eraser E | Erase to transparency. Choose round or square, and set the size. |
| Knife K | Draw freehand around a section. Cut away removes what you circled; Keep only removes everything else — the quickest way to lift one illustration off a page. |
| Frisket P | Paint a protective veil over areas you want to keep — like masking fluid in printmaking. The wand, eraser, and knife will not touch protected areas. Lift removes protection; Clear all removes it everywhere. The veil is never exported. |
| Crop C | Drag a frame, then tap Crop. |
| Rotate R | Quarter turns, flips, and a Straighten slider for crooked scans — nudge the angle, then tap Apply. |
| Tone A | Brightness, contrast, and saturation preview live and are baked in at export. Black point, white point, and threshold change actual pixels — tap Apply to commit. Threshold snaps everything to pure black and white for crisp line art; saturation at 0 gives clean grayscale. |
| Undo | Steps back through the last six changes. Ctrl+Z on a keyboard. |
One finger pans, pinch zooms — always, no matter which tool is active. Apple Pencil draws with the current tool, and pressure varies the eraser size (toggle this off in the eraser options if you prefer a fixed size). Your palm is ignored while the Pencil is in contact.
To install: open this page in Safari, tap the share button, and choose Add to Home Screen. Xetcher will then open full screen like an app.
Scroll to zoom. Pan with the Hand tool, by holding Space, or with a middle-button drag. [ and ] change brush size, 0 fits the image, 1 is 100%, Enter applies a crop, straighten, or tone change, Esc cancels it.
Straighten and crop first. Then tone — raise the black point and lower the white point until the ink is dense and the paper is clean, then Apply. Frisket over the artwork you want to keep. Wand with Everywhere to clear the background. Knife or eraser for the rest. Export.