Comparison of raster-to-vector conversion software
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This article is about raster image conversion. For other uses, see Vectorization (image tracing) and Vectorization (disambiguation).
The following tables contain general and technical information about publicly available raster-to-vector conversion software.
General information
[edit ]| Creator | Year released | Year last updated | List price (USD) | License | Supported OS (without emulation) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CorelDRAW | Cascade Parent Limited d.b.a Alludo Formerly called the Corel Corporation |
1989 | 2023 (version 24.3) | 449,ドル 169ドル upgrade | Proprietary | Windows |
| Easy Trace | InterVek LLC (Russian: ООО ИнтерВек) d.b.a. Easy Trace Group (Russian: Группа Easy Trace) |
? | 2023 (version 12.4)[1] | 960,ドル 480ドル upgrade (Easy Trace Pro) Versions 7.99 and 8.65 are free (Easy Trace) |
Proprietary | Windows |
| Adobe Illustrator | Adobe Inc. Formerly called Adobe Systems Inc. |
1985 | 2023 (version 27.8.1) | 19ドル.99 per month | Proprietary | Windows, macOS |
| PhotoLine | Computerinsel GmbH | 1996 | 2023 (version 24.01) | 86,ドル 42ドル upgrade | Proprietary | Windows, macOS |
| Graphic Tracer Professional | Steve Boek Graphic Powers AB |
2016 | 2023 (version 12:2) | 15ドル per month or 120ドル per year | Proprietary | Windows |
| Inkscape (uses Potrace, Autotrace and Libdepixelize) | Inkscape.org | 2003 | 2024 (version 1.4) | Free | GPL-2.0-or-later | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| ImageTracer | András Jankovics | 2015 | 2020 (version 1.2.6) | Free | Public domain (Unlicense) | Cross-platform (platforms that can run JavaScript or Java) |
| Potrace | Peter Selinger | 2001 | 2019 (version 1.16) | Free | GPL-2.0-or-later | Cross-platform, Windows and POSIX |
| Scan2CAD | Avia Systems | 1997 | 2022 (version 10.4.13) | 49ドル–149ドル per month | Proprietary | Windows, macOS |
| WinTopo Freeware | SoftSoft Ltd. | 1999 | 2015 (version 1.76) | Freeware Free to use for any purpose, including commercial purposes[2] |
Proprietary | Windows |
| WinTopo Pro | SoftSoft Ltd. | 2000 | 2015 (version 3.6) | 299ドル | Proprietary | Windows |
| Xara Photo & Graphic Designer | Xara Group Ltd. | 1994 | 2023 (version 23.4) | 89ドル.99 | Proprietary | Windows |
| Super Vectorizer | Effectmatrix Ltd. | 2013 | 2016 (version 1.6.6) | 29ドル.99 | Proprietary | macOS |
| AutoTrace | Martin Weber | 1998 | 2024 (version 0.31.10) | Free | GPL-2.0-or-later | Cross-platform, POSIX (mainly Unix-like) |
| VTracer | Tsang Hao Fung | 2020 | 2022 (version 0.5.0) | Free | MIT | Cross-platform (command-line version) Browsers with WebAssembly support (web version) |
| SVGcode (uses Potrace) | Thomas Steiner | 2021 | 2023 (version ?) | Free | GPL-2.0-or-later | Android, web (PWA), Windows |
| Primitive | Michael Fogleman | Free | MIT | MAC OS X, with Python & Go packages and a JavaScript port | ||
| KVEC | K. Kuhl | Freeware | WIN 2000, WIN XP, WIN Vista/7, OS/2, Linux, BeOS, MAC OS X | |||
| VectorEZ | Asteride Software SAS | 2025 | 2025 (version 1.0.2) | 22ドル | Proprietary | Windows, macOS |
| Creator | Year released | Year least updated | List price (USD) | License | Supported OS (without emulation) |
Basic features
[edit ]| NAME | Maximum zoom | Object limit per document | Control point limit | Color management for print | Thumbnails | Adjust image (functions) | Text recognition (OCR) | Scripting support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy Trace | 12800x | No Limit | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Graphic Tracer Professional | No limit | No limit | No limit | No | ? | ? | Yes | No |
| Adobe Illustrator | 640x | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes |
| Potrace | — | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | No | No |
| ImageTracer | — | No limit | No limit | No | No | ? | No | Yes |
| Scan2CAD | 64K | No limit | No limit | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| WinTopo Pro | 512x | No limit | No limit | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| PhotoLine | 25600% | No limit | No limit | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Maximum zoom | Object limit per document | Control point limit | Color management for print | Thumbnails | Adjust image (functions) | Text recognition (OCR) | Scripting support |
CAD features
[edit ]| NAME | Export universal DXF | Available in AutoCAD application | Curve recognition | Circle recognition | Arc recognition | Orthogonal line detection | Corner detection | Line connection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy Trace | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Graphic Tracer Professional | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Adobe Illustrator | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Potrace | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
| ImageTracer | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Scan2CAD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WinTopo Pro | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PhotoLine | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Export universal DXF | Available in AutoCAD application | Curve recognition | Circle recognition | Arc recognition | Orthogonal line detection | Corner detection | Line connection |
Raster editing features
[edit ]| Scanner support | Freehand sketch | Raster filters | Change color depth | Image resize | Rotate | Crop | Raster shapes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy Trace | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Graphic Tracer Professional | Yes | Yes | — | — | Yes | Yes | No | — |
| Adobe Illustrator | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Potrace | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| ImageTracer | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Scan2CAD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WinTopo Pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| AutoTrace | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| PhotoLine | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Scanner Support | Freehand sketch | Raster Filters | Change color depth | Image resize | Rotate | Crop | Raster Shapes |
Vector editing features
[edit ]| Fills & hatch | Vector combine | Rotate & move | Polylines | Spline curves | Lines to curves cmd. & vice versa | Vector shapes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy Trace | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Graphic Tracer Professional | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Adobe Illustrator | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Potrace | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| ImageTracer | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Scan2CAD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WinTopo Pro | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
| AutoTrace | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| PhotoLine | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Fills & hatch | Vector combine | Rotate & move | Polylines | Spline curves | Lines to curves cmd. & vice versa | Vector shapes |
Discontinued software
[edit ]- Adobe Freehand (1988–2003)
- Adobe Streamline (1989–2001)
- Xara Xtreme for Linux – 2006 open source fork of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer
References
[edit ]- ^ "Скачать". EasyTrace (in Russian). 2023年05月02日. Archived from the original on 2023年05月31日. Retrieved 2023年09月11日.
- ^ "WinTopo - Raster to Vector conversion Software".