# AI portrait background remover

https://thedollscout.com/ai-portrait-background-remover
Published by TDS Document Scout
Updated: 2026-09-27

Remove the background from a portrait with an AI model in your browser. Download a transparent PNG without uploading the photo.

Static JPEG, PNG or WebP; 10 MiB, 20 megapixels. Output is resized to at most 1,600 pixels on its longest side. Designed for people; not a general product, pet or scene cutout tool. Fine hair, transparent objects and difficult lighting can fail.

MODNet predicts a foreground alpha matte. The mask is applied to the resized portrait and exported as PNG with transparency. This tool uses the quantized model and keeps the photo on your device.

AI processing runs on your device. When you load a model, your browser contacts jsDelivr and Hugging Face to download software and model files. Those services receive connection information such as your IP address; your selected files and text are not sent to them. Model files may stay in browser cache. Clear site data to remove the cache.

First use downloads the model plus the inference runtime. Allow extra time and data. A recent desktop browser is recommended; older phones and restricted networks may fail.

Xenova/modnet · fa2fa546052fba4c08921230a26cc69a333fca12 · q8 · Apache-2.0 · 6632188 bytes of weights

Can I remove a product background?

This model is trained for portrait matting. Product-only photos, animals and complex scenes may produce poor masks. Use it for people and inspect the exported edges.

What resolution do I get?

The longest side is capped at 1,600 pixels, without enlarging smaller inputs. The output is a transparent PNG.

Reference material
- Transformers.js 3.8.1: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers.js/v3.8.1/index
- Xenova/modnet: https://huggingface.co/Xenova/modnet
- MODNet authors and license: https://github.com/ZHKKKe/MODNet