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Aina Olaoluwa 9b0f8d1a26 Add drag-and-drop GUI for the V3 spectral bypass
Small Tkinter app: drop images in, get SynthID-cleaned copies out,
with an option to strip EXIF/XMP/IPTC metadata from the output.
Runs offline on the existing V3 codebook, no PyTorch required.
2026-07-15 13:53:59 +01:00

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SynthID Cleaner (GUI)

A small drag-and-drop desktop app around this repo's V3 spectral bypass (src/extraction/synthid_bypass.py). Useful for e.g. removing the SynthID watermark left behind after using generative AI to restore old photographs.

  • Drop images in, get cleaned copies out — no command line needed after setup.
  • Optionally strips all EXIF/XMP/IPTC metadata from the output (including any AI-generation provenance tags such as C2PA content credentials or IPTC DigitalSourceType), by rebuilding the file from raw pixel data.
  • Runs fully offline. No network calls, no telemetry.
  • Uses V3 (pure signal processing — numpy/scipy/opencv only, no PyTorch required, no GPU needed).

Setup

cd gui
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements-gui.txt

Run

Double-click Launch SynthID Cleaner.command, or from the terminal:

cd gui
source venv/bin/activate
python gui.py

The first double-click sets up the venv automatically if it doesn't exist yet.

Notes

  • Reads the codebook from ../artifacts/spectral_codebook_v3.npz (already in this repo) — no extra downloads.
  • Subject to this repo's LICENSE: non-commercial use, with required attribution to the original author.