JPG to SVG Converter

A JPG to SVG converter traces a JPEG image into filled vector shapes. It does not recover an original vector design: every shape is rebuilt from the pixels, so outlines are an approximation of what you see. Logos, scanned line art, signatures and flat drawings trace well. Photos do not; they become large, blotchy SVGs that can reach many megabytes, sometimes tens of megabytes, far heavier than the JPG.

People reach for this when a logo only survives as a JPG, when a hand-drawn sketch or a signature has been scanned or photographed, or when a cutting machine, laser engraver or embroidery program needs outlines rather than pixels. The SVG that comes out scales to any size without blocky edges and opens in vector editors, where the shapes can be recolored, simplified or deleted.

JPG makes tracing harder than PNG in two ways. JPEG compression leaves faint blocks and speckles around sharp edges, and the tracer can turn that noise into stray little shapes. And JPG has no transparency, so the white or colored background around a logo is traced too, as one more filled shape behind the artwork. Low detail helps with the first problem: it blurs the image slightly before tracing and drops tiny specks. The second is a quick fix in a vector editor, where you select the background shape and delete it.

The Colors setting (2, 8 by default, or 16) sets how many colors the image is reduced to before tracing. Detail (Low, Medium by default, or High) sets how closely each shape follows the pixels. Changing either one traces every added file again, and each row shows the JPG size, the SVG size and the difference, so you can tell a clean trace from a heavy one before you download.

Tracing runs client-side in a background Web Worker with imagetracerjs, downloaded only when you add the first file, so no image is uploaded and the page stays responsive. Images longer than 1200 pixels on a side are scaled down before tracing, and the SVG is still set to open at the original width and height. JPGs up to 100 megapixels are accepted. A trace still running after two minutes is stopped with a message suggesting fewer colors or lower detail. The tool is free, no signup, with a daily cap on conversions.

• The JPG is decoded and traced client-side, in a background worker inside this tab. It is never uploaded, which matters for signatures and scanned documents.
• imagetracerjs is fetched from this site only when you add the first file.
• The SVG contains traced paths only. EXIF data from the JPG, such as camera model or GPS position, is not carried into it.
• The daily usage check sends the tool name, a device identifier and your sign-in token if you are signed in. It carries no image data.
• After a batch, the page logs the file count, total bytes and the output format. File names and pixels are not sent.
• Results stay in the tab's memory until you remove them, press Clear All or close the page.