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Free Ad Content Checker for Static Creatives

Drop a JPG, PNG, WebP or GIF and get measured, automated QA in seconds: on-device OCR reads the copy, then the checks flag tiny type, low-contrast text, overlapping or misaligned copy, crowded lines, clipped text, placeholder copy, doubled words and stale years — every finding boxed on an annotated preview.

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Free covers 5 creatives a day with the full report. 100% in your browser — the image, the OCR and every check stay on your device. You'll find it as Content QA inside DigiLakshya Studio-Tools.
What it checks

Measured findings, not opinions.

Legibility, measured

Text under ~9px flagged from real OCR geometry, WCAG contrast estimated per line against the actual pixels behind it, and copy hugging the edge caught before a placement crops it.

Layout & spacing slips

Overlapping copy, lines crowded to within a few px of each other, copy sitting 3–10px off a shared left edge, and text cut off flush at the image boundary — tuned to flag accidents, not design choices.

Copy slips

Lorem ipsum / TBD / FPO placeholders, doubled words (“the the”), years that have already passed, and a missing call-to-action — plus the full copy extracted into one list for a fast human proofread.

Image quality

A blur estimate from edge detail (soft or over-compressed exports get flagged), resolution sanity, file weight, and a blank-image catch for exports that silently failed.

How it works

Three steps, all on your device.

1

Drop a static creative

JPG, PNG, WebP or GIF. Nothing is uploaded — the file is read straight into your browser's memory. Or hit Try a sample to see a banner with planted mistakes get caught.

2

OCR reads the copy

Up to four passes — standard and sparse-text, each in normal and inverted polarity — plus direct reads of detected buttons and badges, so reverse type and button labels are caught on any background. Then every candidate line is re-read in isolation: texture misreads fail the re-read and are dropped; real copy lands with its position, size and a confidence figure.

3

Review boxed findings

Issues, warnings and passes grouped by area, each traceable to a coloured box on the annotated preview — download it as a PNG and send it straight to the designer. No score, on purpose: judgment stays yours.

Honest comparison

Where it stands against proofreading platforms.

The closest paid equivalents are enterprise artwork-proofreading platforms built for regulated packaging. They do things we don't — and we do the instant, private 80% they'd be overkill for.

Content QA (ours)GlobalVision VerifyArtwork Flow Professional
PriceFree · 5 creatives/day$25/mo removes the cap and unlocks all 25 Studio-Tools ($199/yr)—no public pricing — demo & sales quote only$30 per user/mofree plan exists; Enterprise is custom, “starts at $8,000/yr” per their pricing page
Runs with no account or card✓full report, no signup✗sales-led✗signup required (a $0 plan exists)
Your creative never leaves your device✓OCR and checks run in the browser✗cloud platform✗cloud platform
Measured legibility (per-line WCAG contrast, sub-9px type)✓—not stated—not stated
Layout-slip detection (overlap, crowding, misalignment, cut-off)✓conservative thresholds — flags accidents, not design choices—not stated—not stated
Compares artwork against an approved source document✗honest gap — we have no copy deck to compare against✓their core strength—version compare advertised; not verified in detail
Spelling engine, barcode & Braille inspection✗we extract the copy for a human proofread instead✓built for regulated packaging—AI label checks advertised
One plan also covers 24 other production tools✓$25/mo across the whole suite✗✗

Compared 22 July 2026 from each vendor’s own site. GlobalVision (globalvision.co) publishes no pricing — their site offers a demo and sales contact only; third-party listings have historically quoted $395–$795 per licence, which we could not verify on their site so it is not shown as their price. Artwork Flow (artworkflowhq.com/pricing): Free $0 per user, Professional $30 per user/month, Enterprise custom — their page states “Starts at $8000 per year, based on artwork volume”. A grey “—” means the vendor’s public pages did not state it and we won’t guess. The category is a partial match on purpose: both are artwork-proofreading / label-management platforms aimed at regulated packaging, the closest paid equivalents to automated creative QA — there is no mainstream dedicated paid tool for automated ad-creative content QA, which is rather the point of this one being free. Our $25/mo is the flat PRO price across all 25 Studio-Tools, not a price for this tool alone.

The rest of the QA family

Automated checks are one layer — here are the others.

Packaged HTML5 ads get 23 trafficking checks in the HTML5 Ad Validator, HTML emails get 17 pre-flight checks in EDM QA, social crops get safe-area overlays in Social Ad QA — and when it's time for human feedback, mark creatives up with pins and notes in Creative QA.

Open Content QA
FAQ

Quick answers.

Is the ad content checker really free?
Yes — the whole tool, with nothing held back: every check, the annotated preview and the extracted-copy panel are free for 5 creatives a day, no signup. PRO ($25/month or $199/year) removes the daily cap and unlocks the other 24 Studio-Tools.
Is my creative uploaded anywhere?
No. The image, the OCR and every check run in your browser on your device — there is no server call, no storage and no share link. One honest nuance: the first-ever run downloads the OCR engine and its ~11MB English language model from a CDN (that download is the engine, not your file), and it's cached after that.
What exactly does it check?
Five groups, all measured from the pixels and the OCR'd text: Render (blank image, dimensions, weight), Legibility (text under ~9px, WCAG contrast per line, copy hugging the edge), Layout & spacing (overlapping copy, crowded lines, copy a few px off a shared left edge, text cut off at the image boundary), Copy (lorem/TBD/FPO placeholders, doubled words like “the the”, stale years, a missing call-to-action) and Image quality (a blur estimate and resolution).
Why doesn't it give my creative a score?
On purpose. The checks are measured facts — a 3.8:1 contrast ratio, a 6px misalignment — but whether the creative is right is a human judgment, and a percentage would pretend otherwise. You get counts of issues, warnings and passes instead, each traceable to a specific line on the annotated preview.
How reliable is the text reading (OCR)?
Good on real ad copy, honest about the rest. It runs up to four passes — standard and sparse-text reads in both normal and inverted polarity — after a contrast-stretch preprocess, and it detects solid buttons and badges and reads each one directly, because OCR's own page segmentation refuses those shapes: that is how a white “Shop now” on a coloured pill is caught even on bright artwork. Then every candidate line is re-read in isolation to verify it is really on the creative: fragments that fail the re-read (background texture misread as text) are dropped and counted, not listed as copy. Every surviving line carries a confidence figure; lines under 55% are listed greyed and never fail a check. Heavily stylized display type can still defeat OCR, and when it does the tool says the creative couldn't be measured rather than inventing green ticks.
Can it check my HTML5 ads or emails too?
No — and that's deliberate. Rendering HTML just to rasterize it gives OCR a worse image than the real exports, and those formats raise different questions with their own tools: packaged HTML5 ads go to the HTML5 Ad Validator (23 trafficking checks across 11 ad-server profiles) and HTML emails to EDM QA (17 pre-flight checks). This tool goes deep on flat statics: JPG, PNG, WebP and GIF.
Does it replace a proofreading platform like GlobalVision?
Not for regulated packaging work, no. Platforms like GlobalVision compare artwork against an approved source document and inspect barcodes and Braille — we don't do any of that, and we say so in the comparison below. What this tool does is give ad and social teams the automated 80% — legibility, layout slips and copy slips, instantly and privately — for creatives that would never justify an enterprise proofreading contract.
Do these tools use credits or tokens?
No — never. Every tool is free to use with sample or daily limits, and PRO is a flat $25/month ($199/year) for unlimited use of all 25+ tools: no credit packs, no top-ups, no per-use fees. Many comparable tools bill per credit (remove.bg, CloudConvert, AdCreative.ai) — here one flat subscription covers everything. See tools pricing.

Catch the slip before the client does — free.

Tiny type, low contrast, overlapping copy, a lorem ipsum nobody replaced — measured automatically, boxed on the creative, in your browser. 5 creatives a day free, no signup. Or hand the whole production job to the studio.

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