Artificial Intelligence (AI) image generation and editing tools have revolutionized graphic design by allowing users to quickly change image orientation, redesign layouts, enhance quality, remove backgrounds, or create entirely new posters. However, users working with Punjabi (Gurmukhi) and Hindi (Devanagari) text often encounter a major problem: the original text gets altered during the editing process.
Instead of simply changing the orientation of an existing poster from landscape to portrait, AI may regenerate the text, resulting in spelling mistakes, missing or incorrect matras (vowel signs), changed words, altered punctuation, or even entirely different sentences. This issue becomes especially serious when working with Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji quotations, Gurbani, religious scriptures, legal documents, certificates, educational materials, or official notices, where every character must remain exactly as originally written.
This article explains why this happens, what the current limitations of AI are, and the best practices to preserve the original text.
Suppose you have a landscape poster containing:
Your request is simple:
"Convert this image into portrait mode suitable for WhatsApp Status."
Instead of only rearranging the layout, many AI image generators actually recreate the entire image.
During this recreation:
This is where errors begin.
Punjabi and Hindi depend heavily on matras.
Examples include:
AI frequently:
Even a single incorrect matra completely changes the word.
Examples:
Original:
ਸਚੁ
AI Output:
ਸੱਚ
or
ਸਚ
Although visually similar, they are not the same.
Instead of preserving:
ਨਾਨਕ
AI may generate:
ਨਾਨਿਕ
or
ਨਾਨਕੁ
because it predicts the word rather than copying it.
Punjabi contains conjuncts and special characters.
These are often:
This is perhaps the most serious issue.
Even one changed letter means:
AI often:
Original Gurmukhi fonts are replaced with AI-generated approximations.
Although visually attractive, they are no longer typographically accurate.
The biggest misconception is that AI is "editing" the image.
In reality, most image generation models are:
rather than performing true graphic editing.
The model understands:
"There appears to be Punjabi writing here."
It does not understand:
"Every Unicode character must remain exactly identical."
A graphics editor sees:
Exact pixelsAI sees:
Looks like Punjabi writing.Then it redraws it.
Before regeneration, AI performs a kind of visual recognition.
For English this works reasonably well.
For Punjabi and Hindi:
English contains:
Punjabi and Hindi contain:
This makes reconstruction significantly harder.
When editing:
Even one incorrect character is unacceptable.
Always verify:
after editing.
Instead of asking AI:
Convert this image into portrait.
Use this workflow:
Extend the canvas.
Move existing image elements.
Keep the original text untouched.
Only reposition objects.
Do not regenerate text.
Instead of AI generation, use:
These tools preserve the original pixels.
AI is excellent for:
It is not ideal for regenerating posters that contain large amounts of Punjabi or Hindi text requiring exact fidelity.
Instead of saying:
Make this portrait.
Use:
Extend the canvas vertically. Preserve every original pixel of the text exactly. Do not rewrite, regenerate, translate, correct, or modify any Punjabi, Hindi, English, Gurmukhi, or Devanagari characters. Only reposition the existing image elements.
Even then, current AI image generators may still regenerate text rather than preserving it perfectly.
For posters containing:
Follow this process:
Modern AI is improving rapidly. Future image editing models are expected to:
Until these capabilities become standard, manual layout editing remains the most reliable approach for multilingual designs.
AI-powered image editing is an incredible productivity tool, but it currently has important limitations when handling Punjabi (Gurmukhi) and Hindi (Devanagari) text. Rather than preserving every character exactly, many AI systems regenerate text, which can introduce spelling errors, incorrect matras, altered words, and formatting changes. While these mistakes may be acceptable in creative artwork, they are unsuitable for religious scriptures, official documents, educational materials, or any content where textual accuracy is critical.
For orientation changes such as converting a landscape poster into a portrait WhatsApp Status, the safest approach is to preserve the original text as-is and only modify the layout around it using professional image-editing software or text-preserving editing workflows.