Guide text-heavy content away from forced diffusion scrubs

Issue #84: text, tables, and UI screenshots are the worst case for
--force regeneration. Document that the default pipeline skips the
invisible stage without a detectable signal, that visible/metadata
stages never redraw glyphs, and why paste-back is not offered.
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Victor Kuznetsov
2026-08-18 11:03:53 -07:00
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@@ -57,6 +57,19 @@ Invisible removal does not decode and delete a payload. It regenerates the
image through a diffusion pipeline. Faces, text, colors, and fine detail can
change even when the watermark is successfully disrupted.
Text, tables, and UI screenshots are the worst case for a forced scrub: the
model redraws glyphs as plausible-but-wrong shapes. Do not run the invisible
stage on such content unless a locally-detectable invisible signal exists.
The default `all`, `invisible`, and `batch` commands already skip it then, and
`visible` (which strips AI metadata by default) or `metadata` alone never
redraws a glyph outside the filled watermark box. `--force` is for content you
know carries a pixel watermark despite no local signal; on a clean screenshot
it only buys distortion. Preserving or pasting back the original text pixels
during a real scrub is deliberately not offered: an invisible watermark such
as SynthID lives in the pixels everywhere, including inside the glyphs, so
frozen text regions would keep the watermark
([text protection research](text-protection-research.md)).
`qwen-zimage` is the default profile and `sdxl-zimage` the only alternative.
Both are CUDA only and differ only in the global regeneration model: each
conditions that stage on a canny edge map, which preserves structure but not