What's New in BlurImageTool
Track our latest features, user improvements, and bug fixes. We are committed to making image blurring simple, secure, and fast.
The OCR Auto-Redaction & UX Update
This update introduces client-side OCR text recognition, keyword search-and-redact, in-app toast notifications, and interactive dropdown enhancements.
🔍 Smart OCR Auto-Redaction
Scan any document locally in your browser using high-performance client-side OCR. Automatically coordinates bounding boxes to redact all instances of specific words instantly.
⌨️ Enter Key & Suggestions Dropdown
Interactive glassmorphic dropdown displaying most frequent word matches. Type any word and hit 'Enter' to immediately overlay solid redactions.
🔔 Non-intrusive In-App Toast System
Replaced all browser-level alert dialogs with a sleek, floating toast notification system showing scanning progress, successes, and warning details.
🟢 Live Detected Word Badge
A pulsing, interactive indicator next to the search field showing the exact quantity of words read during the local OCR process.
Contrast OCR Bounding-box Calibration
Configured offscreen white background filling prior to engine parsing to guarantee optimal character matching even on transparent images.
The Multi-Image & Security Update
This update introduces multi-image workflow editing, solid blackout redactions, live comparison, and stability fixes.
Multi-Image Editing Queue
Upload multiple images at once and switch between them seamlessly. Your painted edits are automatically saved on each canvas, allowing you to edit a whole batch before exporting them.
📦 Download all as ZIP
When editing multiple files, export all of your finished work in a single click as a ZIP file. All processing is completed instantly in your local browser.
⬛ Blackout Redaction Colors & Text Labels
Choose between solid Black, White, or Red redactions. You can now overlay custom text labels (e.g. [REDACTED], [CONFIDENTIAL]) centered inside the redacted shapes.
↔️ Draggable Split-Screen Slider Compare
Compare edits dynamically. Toggle the new split-screen compare slider and drag the vertical divider to reveal before/after differences interactively.
🔍 Auto-Redact Text (OCR)
Scan document images client-side with Tesseract.js. Search for target words, see real-time suggestions, and automatically apply blackout redactions over all matching coordinates.
Strength Slider Stability
Fixed a bug where adjusting the blur or pixelate strength slider reset the canvas and cleared the paint stroke history. You can now tweak intensity dynamically without losing your work.
Initial Launch of BlurImageTool
The initial release of a free, offline-first image blur and censor platform.
Full-Image & Brush Blur
Apply Gaussian blur to the whole image or paint it onto specific regions with a custom brush size.
🔲 Pixelate / Mosaic Painting
Anonymize faces or license plates with a grid-like pixelated pixel brush.
🔒 100% Client-Side Privacy
All rendering runs locally on your machine using the HTML5 Canvas API. Your files are never uploaded to any server.
PNG & JPEG Export Options
Choose between PNG or JPEG formats, with high-quality compression control for JPEG files.