Exploring alternatives for IAMGE TRACE fast interactive vectorization.

[Luis Simon]

Image Trace of images is essential to my work methodology, as it helps me save a considerable amount of time. Normally, I used to rely heavily on the vectorizer.ai tool, as Serif has not yet developed an option to vectorize pixels. This tool was especially useful when working with lettering and looking to vectorize pixel brushes, among others. However, recently vectorizer.ai became paid, which is unfortunate :-(. Looking for alternatives, I wonder if anyone knows of a similar tool.

As I am faced with the need to find an alternative to vectorizer.ai, I would like to explore options that offer free automatic vectorization. 

[v_kyr]

Wrong forum category for such questions, use instead Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)! - Hopefully some kind forum moderator might move this thread for you into that category instead.

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[nosmic]

Haha, I feel your pain. I made an account to answer your question with my process, hope this helps. 

First go on www.vectorizer.io, upload the jpg/png/webp you want to trace, then wait for the result to be generated. Right click next to it, Inspect element, then look for the html svg code (attached screenshot). Then go to codebeautify.org/svg-viewer and paste the code. Voila! You can now download a perfectly traced svg. 

[v_kyr]

4 hours ago, nosmic said:

Voila! You can now download a perfectly traced svg.

Jip, extracting the presented result's inner SVG code from HTML is actually a ...let's say workaround... here. At least until the online vectorization tool provider does replace that then with just a shown bitmap representation image of/from the generated SVG code, as far as no paid account is used.