1. A method of removing inserted text from a digital image comprising, with a computer system: recognizing said inserted text in said digital image using optical character recognition; replacing pixels of said digital image corresponding to said inserted text so as to remove said inserted text from said digital image; and, after said replacing pixels corresponding to said inserted text, blending replacement pixels with adjacent pixels; wherein recognizing said inserted text further comprises presenting presumed inserted text to a user for validation, and in which replacing pixels of said digital image corresponding to said inserted text so as to remove said inserted text from said digital image comprises determining a brightness value for the replacement pixels by separately averaging brightness values of pixels in each layer of pixels of a pixel square, each layer of pixels in said pixel square being defined by distance from said replacement pixel.