JPG to SVG converter.
From JPEG to clean paths.

JPG vs. SVG

JPG (also written JPEG) is the most common image format on the web and in cameras. It stores pixels and uses lossy compression to keep files small. That works well for photos, but it adds faint blocky artifacts around sharp edges, and like every raster format it blurs when you enlarge it.

SVG stores shapes instead of pixels. A vector logo or drawing can be scaled to any size without losing sharpness, recolored in seconds, and used by cutting machines, plotters, embroidery software and websites. Converting JPG to SVG means tracing the shapes in the JPEG and rewriting them as vector paths.

Why JPEG artifacts matter for tracing

Compression artifacts are the main difference between converting a JPG and converting a PNG. Around every hard edge a JPEG has slightly off-color pixels and faint ringing. A tracer sees those as tiny extra color regions, which can create specks and rough outlines in the SVG.

You can reduce this a lot: use the highest-quality JPG you have, avoid images that were re-saved many times or downloaded from chat apps, crop away busy backgrounds, and choose the Logo or Line art preset, which merge near-identical colors before tracing. Any remaining specks are individual paths you can delete in a vector editor.

Best JPG images for vectorizing

Good candidates: a photo or scan of a printed logo, a pencil or ink sketch, a signature, a hand-lettered quote, a stamp, a coloring page, or a simple flat illustration saved as JPEG. Shoot or scan in even light, as straight-on as possible, so the tracer sees solid colors instead of shadows.

Poor candidates: portraits, landscapes and other real photos. They will convert to a posterized SVG with many color bands, which can be a fun art effect but is not a faithful vector copy.

Turning a scan or sketch into SVG

For black and white drawings, choose the Line art preset. It reduces the image to two tones and traces the ink as filled shapes, which is ideal for signatures, logos drawn on paper and coloring-book outlines. If the paper is gray or uneven, increase the contrast in any photo app before uploading; the cleaner the separation between ink and paper, the cleaner the paths.

What happens when you press Vectorize

Your browser scales the picture so its longest side is at most 800 pixels and sends only the raw pixel colors to our server. The server runs a classic tracing algorithm (the open-source imagetracerjs library): it reduces the image to a small palette, finds the outline of every area that shares a color, and fits straight lines and quadratic curves along those outlines. The result is a standard SVG file made of filled paths that you can open in Illustrator, Inkscape, Figma, Affinity Designer, or any web browser.

This is a tracer, not an AI model. It does not invent detail, guess what is behind an object, or redraw your artwork in a new style. It follows the edges that are actually in your pixels. That makes it fast, predictable and cheap, and it means the output is only as clean as the input.

Choosing the right preset

Logo uses a small palette and smooth curves, which suits flat logos, icons, stickers and badges. Illustration keeps more colors for flat cartoon artwork. Line art produces a two-tone result for sketches, signatures, stamps and scanned ink drawings. Detailed keeps the most colors and the finest shapes; it is the closest you will get to a photo, but files get large and the look is posterized rather than photographic.

If the first result looks noisy, try a simpler preset before anything else. Fewer colors almost always means cleaner shapes and a smaller file.

Honest limits

Photographs, soft gradients, fur, hair and heavy textures do not become crisp vectors with any tracer. You will get a poster-style SVG with visible color bands. Very small text (under roughly 12 pixels tall in the source) may merge or lose its counters. Because images are scaled to 800 pixels before tracing, extremely detailed artwork can lose fine lines. For production logos, treat the SVG as a strong starting point and tidy it up in a vector editor.

If a conversion fails or the server cannot finish it, no credit is taken.

Privacy and file handling

Your file never leaves your browser as a file: only the downsized pixel data is posted for tracing, and the SVG is returned straight to you. We do not keep a gallery of uploads or use your images to train anything. You need a free account so that credits can be tracked; each successful conversion costs 1 credit.