Ark Image Tracer — Image to SVG

Drop a PNG or JPEG here

Everything is traced in your browser — the picture is never uploaded anywhere.

Preset

A starting point. Every setting below stays yours to change.

Colour

Mode

Colours 16

Backdrop

Shapes

Recognise rectangles, circles & polygons Turn thin bars into lines Turn rings into stroked outlines

Slack 1.2 px

How far the pixels may stray from a shape and still count as one. Raise it to catch hand-drawn or noisy shapes; lower it to keep only the ones that really are exact.

Line width px

The thickest bar still worth drawing as a line rather than filling in.

Text

Recognise text and keep it as text

Words are read in your browser and written as editable <text> rather than traced into outlines — smaller files, and wording you can still retype. The engine downloads once (about 6 MB) and nothing is uploaded anywhere.

Font

Confidence 80%

How sure the reader must be before a word is kept. Anything it is less certain of stays traced as outlines, so nothing is ever lost — only drawn a different way.

Detail

Simplify 0.5 px

Smoothing 0.6 px

Smoothing fits curves through the outline. At 0 every edge stays a straight segment.

Despeckle 2 px²

Denoise off

Denoise blurs the picture before tracing — it settles JPEG speckle in flat areas.

Output

Trace at

Scaling down before tracing loses small text for good. Keep this at or above the picture's own size unless tracing is too slow.

Precision dp

Re-trace as I change settings