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Pictures into SVG, on your device.

Trace a logo or drawing into coloured shapes, or line art and a signature into smooth curves, as an SVG compared with your picture. Nothing uploaded.

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A logo traced into an SVG: the picture on the left, its shapes on the right, very close when drawn back

An SVG is drawn from shapes, so it stays sharp at any size.

Two tracers.

Logos and drawings are traced in colour by vtracer, each flat colour its own shapes; line art and signatures are traced by Potrace into smooth curves of one ink. Both are our own builds in WebAssembly, served by this site.

Drawn back and compared.

Every drawing is cleaned of anything that could run, drawn back by your browser and compared with your picture, and the page says how close it is.

Not for photos.

A photo traces into thousands of small shapes and a large file; an SVG suits logos and drawings.

Further reading

Topics: image to svg · png to svg · vectorize · svg converter · trace image

A little less theory. A little more doing.

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