Convert JPG to SVG
Trace a JPG into clean SVG outlines. JPEG compression softens every edge and speckles the flat areas before you start, so the speckle filter and the palette size are the two controls that matter here.
- Input
- JPG
- Output
- SVG
- 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
- 01Logo — set for this page16 colours
- 02Line artBlack & white
- 03Photo64 colours
- 04Embroidery8 colours · Cutout
- 05Vinyl4 colours · Cutout
- 06LaserBlack & white · Polygon
- Output · SVG · PDF · EPS [soon] · DXF [soon]
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- Your file stays in this tab
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 | SVG · out |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Raster. A grid of pixels, stored in 8x8 blocks. | Vector. Paths described in XML. |
| Scaling | Blurs past its native size, and the block artefacts scale with it. | Sharp at any size. |
| Colour | Up to 16.7 million colours, no alpha channel. Lossy. | One solid fill per path, in a palette you can edit by hand. |
| Editable in | Photoshop, GIMP, Affinity Photo. | Illustrator, Inkscape, Figma, Affinity Designer, a text editor. |
| Typical use | Photographs, camera output, anything a client emails you. | Web, icons, print artwork, the input to a cutter workflow. |
Worth knowing
JPEG is lossy and block-based: an 8x8 block near a hard edge gets ringing, and a flat colour area picks up a faint grid. Both are invisible at 100% and very visible to a tracer that thresholds. Raising the speckle filter drops the ringing before it becomes a path; lowering the palette merges the block-to-block colour drift back into one fill.
JPEG has no alpha channel, so a JPG of a logo always arrives on a background. Trace it, then delete the background path — it is the largest one and usually the first in the file.
If the JPG is a photograph rather than a mark, switch to the photo preset. A traced photograph is a stylised, posterised version of it, which is the honest description: sixty-four flat fills cannot be a photograph, and any converter that says otherwise is showing you a bitmap in a wrapper.
How it works
Drop the JPG
Drop, paste or choose a JPG or JPEG. The browser decodes it and the worker takes the pixels from there.
Raise the speckle filter
JPEG artefacts trace as tiny regions. Push the speckle filter up until the path count stops falling, then stop.
Export the SVG
Delete the background path in your editor if the JPG had one — JPEG cannot store transparency, so there always is one.
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
- 01Is JPEG the same as JPG here?
- Yes — same format, same decoder, same page. The extension differs for historical reasons (DOS allowed three characters), so /convert/jpeg-to-svg permanently redirects here rather than existing as a second copy.
- 02Why does my traced JPG have speckles the original does not?
- Those are JPEG artefacts being traced faithfully. Raise the speckle filter so regions under that many pixels are dropped, and lower the colour count so near-identical blocks merge into one fill.
- 03Does the photo leave my computer?
- 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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