PNG to SVG
Trace a PNG image into SVG vector paths. This reads the pixels and redraws them as shapes, so the result is a new drawing rather than a recovered original. Logos, icons, line art, and anything with flat colour and clean edges come out well; photographs, soft gradients, and fine texture do not. PNG is the best-case source: it was never lossily compressed, so edges are exactly where the artist put them and the tracer has clean boundaries to follow. Runs on your own Vistalyth Tools instance. Files never reach a third party.
Features
- Traces PNG pixels into SVG paths, which is a redraw and not a 1:1 vector recovery
- Tuned for flat colour and hard edges; a poor fit for photographic content
- Batch tracing across many PNG files
- Your PNG files are processed on your own server and never uploaded anywhere
What you can do
- Rebuild a logo you only have as a PNG into something that scales cleanly
- Turn scanned line art or a signature into editable SVG paths
- Prepare artwork for cutting, engraving, or large-format print from a raster source
Self-hosted. Your files never leave your network.
Vistalyth Tools runs entirely on your own infrastructure. Files processed with PNG to SVG are never uploaded to third-party servers. Deploy a single Docker container and process files with full privacy, no watermarks, and no usage limits. Open source under AGPL-3.0.
Frequently asked questions
- Does this recover the original vectors?
- No, and nothing can. Once artwork has been rasterised the paths are gone. This traces the pixels into new SVG paths that approximate them. If the true vector source exists anywhere, use that instead.
- Why does my photo look wrong as SVG?
- Because tracing has to reduce continuous tone to a finite set of filled shapes, so a photograph becomes a posterised blob. Vectorisation is for logos and line art.
- Any tips for getting a better trace from a PNG?
- If the PNG has anti-aliased edges, nudge the threshold up so the tracer does not emit a halo of thin intermediate shapes around every boundary.
- Can I edit the result?
- Yes. The output is ordinary SVG that opens in Illustrator, Inkscape, Figma, or a text editor.
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