Rasterlessvector

Turn a raster image into a vector

Drop a PNG, JPEG or WEBP above and you get vector files back: SVG, PDF, EPS, DXF or PNG. Not a picture wrapped in a vector container — the SVG holds <path> elements only, and the DXF carries LWPOLYLINE and SPLINE outlines with one layer per colour. You can open the result in Illustrator, Inkscape, Fusion 360, LightBurn or FreeCAD and edit the geometry.

What runs here is a geometric tracer, not a model that has been trained on anything. It segments the image into flat colour regions, builds a planar arrangement of their shared boundaries, places each boundary against an explicit anti-aliasing model rather than snapping it to the pixel grid, and fits curves. That last part matters more than it sounds: the edge of a scanned or anti-aliased shape does not sit on a pixel edge, it sits somewhere inside a two-pixel ramp, and putting it in the right place is the difference between a clean outline and a staircase.

Files up to 25 MB and 40 megapixels are accepted, one image per conversion. Anything above 1.5 megapixels is scaled down before tracing, so the output's pixel dimensions come back smaller than the original — if the finished physical size matters, type it into the millimetre fields instead. The size in millimetres applies to all four vector formats, and the DXF declares millimetres explicitly ($INSUNITS = 4).

Drop an image here

or click to choose one

PNG · JPG · WEBP

How it works

  1. Drop or choose the image — PNG, JPEG or WEBP, one per conversion.
  2. Set the colour count: 2 for a plain silhouette or stencil, 8 to 16 for a flat logo, more for artwork with shading.
  3. Tick the formats you need: SVG, PDF, EPS, DXF, PNG.
  4. Run it, open the preview at full size, then sign in with Google to download.
A flat badge converted to SVG — source image A flat badge converted to SVG — vector result
A flat badge converted to SVG

Who this is for

Choose the colour count by what the picture is. This is the one setting that changes the result most, and it is not a quality dial. Two colours give a single clean outline, which is what a vinyl cutter or a stencil wants. Eight to sixteen suit a flat logo with solid areas. Pushing the number higher on a photograph does not produce a photograph — it produces hundreds of small regions that are slower to write and harder to edit.

The preview is the measurement. Open it at full size before you commit. A converter can score well on averages and still be visibly wrong in one corner, and the only reliable way to catch that is to look at the thing.

Conversions take a measurable amount of time, and the page tells you when one is heavy. Measured in the production container: a flat sticker takes about 3.5 seconds, a plain logo 2.8, a text logo 2.9, and a dense hairline drawing 26.8. The wall-clock budget for a single conversion is 60 seconds. An image whose estimated time would exceed that is refused before the work starts, with a suggestion to lower the colour count or send a smaller image — and your quota is not charged for a conversion that never ran.

Settings we suggest

Formats. SVG, PDF, EPS, DXF and PNG. The geometry is built once and each writer serialises the same shapes, so the outlines match across formats. PDF, EPS and DXF want cubic curves; SVG has its own quadratic and arc commands and they are cheaper, so shapes keep their own vocabulary and convert on the way out.

Shape stacking. Cut-outs punch holes through the shapes underneath; stacked paints them on top of each other. Cut-outs are what a cutter or a laser expects, because every path then encloses material that actually exists.

Grouping. None, by colour, by parent or by layer — this decides how the file is organised when you open it, not what it looks like.

Scale. With no millimetre value, 96 pixels map to 25.4 mm (1 px ≈ 0.26 mm). Type a width or height in millimetres and the drawing is scaled to it.

Questions

Do I need an account?

Converting and previewing are open to everyone; downloading the vector files takes a free Google sign-in. Before you sign in you get 10 conversions per hour; signed in, 60 per hour and 300 per day.

Is there a watermark?

No. The files you download are the files the engine produced.

What happens to my image?

Download links expire after 1 hour. Uploaded images and generated files are removed by an automatic 1-day deletion rule and are never used for anything else.

Can I upload an SVG or a PDF?

No — the input is a raster image: PNG, JPEG or WEBP. SVG, PDF, EPS and DXF are output formats.

Can I convert a folder of images at once?

No, one image per conversion.

Which DXF version comes out?

DXF R2010 (AC1024), which opens in AutoCAD 2010 and later, Fusion 360, LightBurn, Inkscape and FreeCAD. It contains outlines — LWPOLYLINE and SPLINE — on one layer per colour, with no hatch fill.

Does it use AI?

No. It is a geometric tracer: colour segmentation, an explicit anti-aliasing model and curve fitting. There is no trained model in the pipeline.

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