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Datestamp

Your scanned photos think they were taken today.

A scanner stamps every photo with the date you scanned it, so forty years of memories all land on one afternoon. Datestamp reads the real date off the photo — the little orange imprint in the corner, or the writing on the back — and puts it back where it belongs.

Try it

Give a scanned photo its real date back.

Drag a photo here, or click to choose one

Tap to choose a photo

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Detect the date for meReads a date stamp, or writing on the back.

Why the Date Matters

The date inside a photo file is what every app sorts, groups, and remembers by. Get it right once and everything downstream falls into place.

Photos Sort Correctly

Your library puts 1987 next to 1987 instead of burying it under this week's scans

Albums Build Themselves

Apple Photos, Google Photos and Lightroom all group by date taken — give them the real one

It Travels With the File

EXIF lives inside the photo, so the date survives copies, backups and sharing

It Reads the Photo, Not a Filename

Point it at a print and it looks for the date the way a person would. Most film-era photos carry a small orange imprint burned into a corner by the camera's date back — MAR 87, '92 7 15. Datestamp reads those, and knows that a two-digit 87 means 1987.

If you scanned the back of the print instead, it reads the handwriting there. “Christmas 1985” and “Katie's 3rd birthday” both become real dates.

Or Just Tell It the Date

Plenty of photos have no date written on them anywhere — you just know roughly when they were taken. Flip the switch off, pick a date, and it gets written the same way.

If a photo has nothing readable on it, Datestamp says so and hands you the date picker rather than guessing. It will never invent a date from how old a photo happens to look.

Careful With Your Photos

Editing metadata should never cost you image quality.

Lossless for JPEG

The date is spliced into the file's metadata. Your image data comes back byte-for-byte identical — no re-compression, no quality loss

Never Stored

Your photo is processed in memory and gone the moment the request finishes. Nothing is saved, and nothing is kept

Works on Your Phone

Upload straight from your camera roll, including iPhone HEIC photos, and save the result right back to Photos

Reads Date Imprints

The orange camera date stamp burned into the corner of film-era prints, including two-digit years

Reads Handwriting

Notes on the back of a print become real dates — informal ones like 'Christmas 1985' included

Every Common Format

JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF and HEIC in. A dated JPEG out, ready for any photo library

Built on an API

The same endpoint the tool above uses. Free to try, and documented alongside the rest of our API.

curl -X POST https://enhance.photopanda.org/api/v1/datestamp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -F "[email protected]" \
  -F "mode=auto" \
  -o dated-photo.jpg

# The date it found comes back in the response headers:
#   X-Datestamp-Date: 1987:03:15
#   X-Datestamp-Text: MAR 15 '87

# Or set it yourself:
curl -X POST https://enhance.photopanda.org/api/v1/datestamp \
  -F "[email protected]" \
  -F "mode=manual" -F "date=1987-03-15" \
  -o dated-photo.jpg