(Free) Browser-Based, and free, photo to vector illustration conversion online tool. Convert bitmap images to vector images with a few simple clicks. Just upload your image and we will guide you through the process
Adobe Illustrator Live Trace Tool
($499) Adobe Illustrator CS3 is the standard in the graphic design and web design industry as a vector illustration software. However, Adobe Illustrator also includes a Live Trace tool that can quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths. Adobe CS3 also includes curve recognition, circle recognition, arc recognition, orthogonal line detection, corner detection, line connection, and much more. Available for Windows and Mac OS.
(Free to Try, $10 to Buy) Able Vector is an application (just for AUTOCAD users) and service (for everybody) that can be used to vectorise digital images, to vectorgraph (such as Macromedia Freehand, Adobe Illustrator or AutoCAD, CorelDraw, IronCAD, TigerCAD, etc.) in line style. With AbleVector you cannot to import and edit your company logo, idiograph or other picture (.tiff, .jpeg, .bmp, etc . . .) in your own vector image and allow you to change color and edit individual elements. Available for Windows OS.
Algolab Raster to Vector Conversion Toolkit
(Free to Try / I think price is $99 to buy) AlgoLab Raster to Vector Conversion Toolkit converts architect, mechanical and various technical drawings, maps and other types of line artwork including black and white graphics for books and journals from raster to vector formats. This means that a paper drawing can be scanned, line artwork automatically recognized and represented in a vector format that then can be imported to your CAD or drawing program. Toolkit has the unique special feature to refine curves. So with a proper choice of parameters a vectorized drawing composed of curves normally looks better than the original one. Toolkit is designed to provide quality of high-end products. Even those who have one of such high-end products may certainly find that at least for some kind of drawings Toolkit provides better quality of the output vector files. So it is reasonable to have Toolkit available. Available for Windows OS.
(Free to Try / I think price is $99 to buy) AlgoLab Photo Vector is a handy tool for designers and CAD/CAM professionals to cleanup, make fast corrections, edit color designs with or without further conversion to vector formats. It may be especially useful for designs on fabric, textile, jacquard, carpets, mats, vinyl and other materials. Photo Vector is your best choice to cleanup scanned designs and edit colors. Available for Windows OS.
(Free) AutoTrace is a software program created in 1998 for converting bitmap images to vector graphics.
The aim of the AutoTrace project is the development of a freely available application with a functionality similar to CorelTrace or Adobe Streamline. AutoTrace can export universal DXF, offers curve recognition, and corner detection. AutoTrace is free software and is distributed under the term of GNU GPL. AutoTrace can be used on Windows, Mac, Unix, and Amiga OS operating systems.
Boris Red includes a Vector Trace tool that enables the conversion from a raster bitmap image such as a tiff, jpeg or a frame from a movie clip to a scalable vector graphic with a way to extrude any of the resulting vector shapes. Your images can be converted into vector graphics by choosing the Vector Trace tool and then dragging this Vector Trace Tool over the image that you want to be converted. There are even advanced tracing option, inlcuding the ability to select the color or alpha channel with which to base the conversion. Boris Red is available for Windows and Mac OS.
($349) Canvas' AutoTrace filter can support tracing of not only color and grayscale images, but also black and white as well. Define the channel, threshold, resolution, as well as final color mode and trace type to refine the vector output to your needs. If you work with technical illustrations and graphics, you know how daunting the task can be when a project requires various documents, images, and data
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