nutlope / restorephotos

Restoring old and blurry face photos with AI.

RestorePhotos.io

This project restores old face photos using AI. Watch the 4 minute explainer video to see how I built this or see the 15 second demo.

How it works

It uses an ML model from the Applied Research Center called GFPGAN on Replicate to restore face photos. This application gives you the ability to upload any photo, which will send it through this ML Model using a Next.js API route, and return your restored photo.

Running Locally

Note: I just added auth so these steps are not complete as of now. You can git clone from this specific commit.

Cloning the repository the local machine.

git clone

Creating a account on Replicate to get an API key.

1. Go to Replicate to make an account.
2. Click on your profile picture in the top right corner, and click on "Dashboard".
3. Click on "Account" in the navbar. And, here you can find your API token, copy it.

Storing API key in .env file.

Create a file in root directory of project with env. And store your API key in it, as shown in the .example.env file.

If you'd also like to do rate limiting, create an account on UpStash, create a Redis database, and populate the two environment variables in .env as well. If you don't want to do rate limiting, you don't need to make any changes.

Installing the dependencies.

npm install

Running the application.

Then, run the application in the command line and it will be available at http://localhost:3000.

npm run dev

One-Click Deploy

Deploy the example using Vercel:

Powered by

This example is powered by the following services:

• Replicate (AI API)
• Bytescale (storage + image processing API)
• Vercel (hosting, serverless functions, analytics)
• Auth.js + Neon (auth + DB)
• Upstash Redis (rate limiting)

restorephotos's Issues

Add support for disallowing people from NSFW pictures with the help of NSFWJS

We can use https://nsfwjs.com/ to enable check for NSFW uploads while uploading any image on the application

auth

how to disable auth?

Blurred faces

Faces in the images have a black blur over them instead of clearing old images up. Tried different image types and sizes in kB. This happens to all images I tried, approx 6 different images all have the same issue. See attached example below.

The Commit without auth is not working.

The Commit without auth is not working may the issue is with uploader which uploads image. The restored image is not loading

Issue with .jfif file formats

Images in .jfif format

• Upload occurs normally, it is sent and the loading icon shows.
• After processing the image return is crashed

In the image url i get /_next/image?url=Failed%20to%20restore%20image&w=1080&q=75

When I sent the same image converted to png it worked fine.

Change Port

Hi there,

Is it possible to change the port to something else? Preferably opening it up to allow users to easily modify the port to their choosing.

Kind regards,

Rishi

دتنن

bolek

NSFW false positive

Hello,
I have a false positive with an old family photo (a 3 year old children and a baby)
They are absolutely not naked!
Can we do something about it?
Thanks

asyncFunctionResume

I ran the tool locally and came up with the following error message when uploading an jpeg:

Unhandled Runtime Error
Error: Some error occured, please try again later!
Call Stack
asyncFunctionResume

[native code]

---

Could not figure what the problem is so far. Anyone got a clue?

Configure Environment Variables

how to configure Required Environment Variables? Such as GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID, NEXTAUTH_URL, SHADOW_DATABASE_URL

Plus de générations

Bonjour,
restorephotos.io est vraiment top.
Allez-vous créer un logiciel avec cette fonction ? Est-il possible d'avoir plus de 5 générations par jour ?
En vous remerciant d'avance,
Cordialement,

Hard-coded download file path

On my phone it keeps asking me to replace the current downloaded file, because this file name here is hard-coded:

restorePhotos/pages/restore.tsx

Lines 163 to 166 in 7baa5f6

	<button
	onClick={() => {
	downloadPhoto(restoredImage!, "restoredPhoto.jpg");
	}}

I suggest getting the file name from originalPhoto and using that here instead.

Stream the Response

Edit.

Wrong github url it should be posted on the twitterbio.

it keeps polling locally

Hi @Nutlope
I am trying to run it locally but it keeps polling (logs: "polling for result...") for quite a long, I used the same image you put on the home page. Do you have any idea/hint on how to resolve it?
thanks

Docker image

Hey there, this is a pretty cool resource. Any chance it could be packaged into a Docker image so it could be deployed in that manner?

Bulk photos restore

Is there a way I can use this tool to restore photos in bulk? Either online or locally?

Can you share the license for this app?

An issue when uploading another photo, just after processing another photo

First of all i'd like to say, damm this is great, i encountered an error on my second upload just after processing the first photo, My photo could get uploaded ,but never displayed the second photo , to fix this i had to re-route to main page and back to the upload button again... please fix this... great stuff guys