Convert JPG to DXF
A JPG is the worst input a cutter can get and the one you are most often given. Filter the artefacts first, then export DXF outlines a machine can follow.
- Input
- JPG
- Output
- DXF [soon]
- Engine
- WASM, in your tab
- Price
- Free preview
Drop an image here, or paste
Your image is never uploaded. It is traced in this tab.Open the full converter
Preset
- 01Logo16 colours
- 02Line artBlack & white
- 03Photo64 colours
- 04Embroidery8 colours · Cutout
- 05Vinyl4 colours · Cutout
- 06Laser — set for this pageBlack & white · Polygon
- Output · SVG · PDF · EPS [soon] · DXF [soon]
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- Your file stays in this tab
The DXF exporter lands in week 4. Tracing and preview work today; export is disabled until then.
Why vectortrace
- Ticket 1 / 3
In-browser and private
The engine is WebAssembly running in a worker on your own machine. Your image is never uploaded — so there is nothing to leak, nothing to delete, and nothing to take on trust.
- Ticket 2 / 3
Editable paths, not a wrapper
The engine groups the image into colour regions, takes the boundary between them and fits curves to it. What comes out is real geometry — one fill per region, every node yours to move — produced in the tab and never on a server.
- Ticket 3 / 3
Formats print and production use
SVG and PDF today; EPS and DXF for cutters, engravers and embroidery software as the exporters land. Real files, opened in Illustrator, Inkscape and LibreCAD — not an SVG with a JPEG inside it.
Format facts
| Format facts | JPG · in | DXF · out |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Raster. A grid of pixels, stored in 8x8 blocks. | Vector. AutoCAD Drawing Interchange — geometry and layers, no fills. |
| Scaling | Blurs past its native size, and the block artefacts scale with it. | Sharp at any size, and it carries real drawing units. |
| Colour | Up to 16.7 million colours, no alpha channel. Lossy. | None as a fill. Colour in DXF is a property of the layer. |
| Editable in | Photoshop, GIMP, Affinity Photo. | LibreCAD, AutoCAD, Fusion 360, LightBurn, most cutter software. |
| Typical use | Photographs, camera output, anything a client emails you. | Laser cutters, CNC routers, plasma tables, vinyl plotters. |
Worth knowing
JPEG ringing around a hard edge is a band of intermediate pixels a few wide, and the tracer turns each stray band into its own tiny region. Raising the speckle filter drops those regions before they become paths, and lowering the palette merges the block-to-block colour drift back into one fill; between them they are what removes the wobble a cutter would otherwise follow.
If you can get the original PNG, PDF or AI file, use that instead. A JPEG of a logo has already thrown away the information that defines the edge, and no tracer can put it back — it can only make a defensible guess.
DXF has no fills, so what you are producing is a cut path. Decide before exporting whether you are cutting the shape out or engraving it: the first wants the outline, the second wants a centreline your machine software generates.
How it works
Drop the JPG
Drop the artwork. It is decoded and traced locally.
Filter the artefacts
Laser preset, then raise the speckle filter until the contour stops rippling along the edges.
Export DXF
Check units and interior holes in your machine software before cutting anything expensive.
Benchmark
Measured, not marketed. The corpus, the method and every figure the run produced are published in full.
Methodology → /benchmarks- boundary error, p95
- 0.39 px
- region-count error
- 0.113
- node-count ratio
- 6.35×
Questions
- 01Why does the cut path look wobbly?
- JPEG ringing. The compressor put a band of intermediate pixels along every hard edge, and a threshold-based trace follows that band. Raise the speckle filter, drop the colour count, and if you can, get a lossless copy of the artwork.
- 02Which DXF version is written?
- AutoCAD R2000 (AC1015) — the version cutter, CAM and sign software reads most reliably.
- 03Does the file leave my machine?
- No. The tracer is WebAssembly running in a Web Worker in this tab, so the pixels stay on your machine. There is no upload step, which is also why it keeps working with the network off.
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