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Comparison of raster to vector conversion software
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The following tables contain general and technical information about a number of raster to vector conversion software products. Please see the individual products' articles for further information.
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[edit] General information
This table gives basic general information about the different vector graphics editors:
| Creator | Released | Latest version | List price (USD) | License | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutoTrace | Martin Weber | 1998 | 0.31.1 | free | GPL |
| Easy Trace | Easy Trace Group | 2009 | 8.6 | 1500 Euro, 750 Euro upgrade | Proprietary |
| Freehand | Macromedia | 1988 | 11 (MX) | $399, $99 upgrade | Proprietary |
| Illustrator | Adobe Systems | 1985 | 14 (CS4) | $499, $169 upgrade | Proprietary |
| MagicTracer | Elgorithms MagicTracer | 2005 | 2.0 | $59 | Proprietary |
| MST Viewer | MS Technology | 2002 | 14.1 | Commercial Use Only | Proprietary |
| PhotoLine | Computerinsel GmbH | 1997 | 14.02 | 59 Euro | Proprietary |
| Potrace | Peter Selinger | 2001 | 1.8 | free | GPL |
| R2V Toolkit | AlgoLab | ? | 2.91 | $99 | Proprietary |
| Ras2Vec | Davide Libenzi | 1989 | 1.2 | free | GPL |
| Image2XAML | Roman Kalachik | 2008 | 0.7 | free | GPL |
| Raster to Vector | Raster to Vector | ? | 7.0 | $99 | Proprietary |
| RasterVect | RasterVect | 1992 | 10.2 | $79 | Proprietary |
| RaveGrid | RaveGrid | 2006 | 2.5 | free for personal use (commercial licenses available) |
Proprietary |
| Scan2CAD Pro | Softcover Intn'l | 1997 | 7.4a | $469, $190 upgrade | Proprietary |
| Silhouette Pro | Free Soft S.A. | 1992 | 1.9.4 | $359 | Proprietary |
| Adobe Streamline | Adobe Systems | ? | 4.0 | ? | Proprietary |
| Vector Magic | Vector Magic | 2007 | 1.08(PC), 1.11(Mac) | $7.95/mo, $295/lic, tokens | Proprietary |
| Vextractor | VextraSoft | 2001 | 3.70 | $99 | Proprietary |
| VPHybridCAD | softelec | 2007 | 9.03 | $1400 | Proprietary |
| WinTopo Freeware | SoftSoft | 1998 | 1.661 | free | Proprietary |
| WiseImage | Consistent Software | 2001 | 10.7 | $1400 | Proprietary |
| RasVector | Daniel Lu | 2007 | 1.1.5 b6 | free | GPL |
| Xara Xtreme | Xara Group Ltd. | 2006 | 2.0f | 79$ for Windows, free for Linux | GPL |
| XTrace | Ronny Schütz | 1998/2005 | 2.0 | 25$ for Amiga (Demo available) | Proprietary |
| VectorNow | AutoDWG | 2002 | 2.1 | $120.00 | Proprietary |
| DesignPresentation | DesignPresentation | 2002 | 2.0 | Pay Per Use | SaaS |
| Creator | Released | Latest version | List price (USD) | License |
[edit] Operating system support
This table lists the operating systems that different programs can run on without emulation:
| NAME | Windows | Mac OS X | Unix | AmigaOS/AROS | IBM z/OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutoTrace | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Easy Trace | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Freehand | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Illustrator | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| MagicTracer | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| MST Viewer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PhotoLine | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Potrace | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| R2V Toolkit | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Ras2Vec | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Image2XAML | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Raster to Vector | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| RasterVect | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| RaveGrid | Yes | (contact authors for non-gui version) | (contact authors for non-gui version) | No | No |
| Scan2CAD Pro | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Silhouette Pro | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Vector Magic | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Vextractor | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| VPHybridCAD | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| WinTopo | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| RasVector | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| WiseImage | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| XTrace | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Windows | Mac OS X | Unix | AmigaOS/AROS | IBM z/OS |
"Unix" includes the similar Linux and BSD operating systems.
[edit] Basic Features
| NAME | Maximum zoom | Object limit per document | Control point limit | Color management for print | Thumbnails | Adjust Image (functions) | Text Recognition (OCR) | Scripting support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutoTrace | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Easy Trace | 12800x | No Limit | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No |
| Freehand | 64x | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | No | Yes |
| Illustrator | 64x | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes |
| MagicTracer | 12800x | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | No | No |
| MST Viewer | No Limit | No Limit | No Limit | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Potrace | N/A | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | No | No |
| R2V Toolkit | N/A | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | No | No |
| Ras2Vec | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Image2XAML | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Raster to Vector | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | No | Yes |
| RasterVect | No limit | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes |
| RaveGrid | No Limit | No Limit | N/A | N/A | ? | ? | No | No |
| Scan2CAD Pro | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | No |
| Silhouette Pro | 64x | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes |
| Vector Magic | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | No | No |
| Vextractor | 25x | No limit | No limit | No | ? | ? | No | No |
| VPHybridCAD | No limit | No limit | No limit | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| WinTopo Freeware | +/-512x | No limit | N/A | Yes | ? | ? | No | No |
| WinTopo Pro | +/-512x | No limit | No limit | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes |
| RasVector | N/A | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| WiseImage | No limit | More than 100 000 | No limit | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes |
| XTrace | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | No | (Thru Amiga ARexx) |
| Maximum zoom | Object limit per document | Control point limit | Color management for print | Thumbnails | adjust image (functions) | Text Recognition (OCR) | Scripting support |
[edit] AutoCAD Features
| NAME | Export universal DXF | inside AutoCAD application available | Curve recognition | Circle recognition | Arc recognition | Orthogonal line detection | Corner detection | Line connection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutoTrace | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
| Easy Trace | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Freehand | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Illustrator | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MagicTracer | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Potrace | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
| R2V Toolkit | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Ras2Vec | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Image2XAML | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Raster to Vector | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| RasterVect | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| RaveGrid | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Scan2CAD Pro | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Silhouette Pro | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Vector Magic | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Vextractor | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes |
| VPHybridCAD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WinTopo Freeware | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| WinTopo Pro | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| WiseImage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| XTrace | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
| Export universal DXF | inside AutoCAD application available | Curve recognition | Circle recognition | Arc recognition | Orthogonal line detection | Corner detection | Line connection |
[edit] Raster Editing Features
| Scanner support | Freehand sketch | Raster filters | Change color depth | Image resize | Rotate | Crop | Raster shapes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutoTrace | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Easy Trace | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Freehand | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Illustrator | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| MagicTracer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MST Viewer | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Potrace | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| R2V Toolkit | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Ras2Vec | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Image2XAML | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Raster to Vector | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| RasterVect | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| RaveGrid | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Scan2CAD Pro | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Silhouette Pro | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Vextractor | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| VPHybridCAD | Yes, Direct Large-Format-Scanner interface for Contex, Colortrac, Graphtec, HP, KIP
plus TWAIN-Interface |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WinTopo Freeware | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| WinTopo Pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| WiseImage | Contex, Graphtec, Colortrac, SmartLF, KIP, TWAIN | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| XTrace | N/A | ? | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Scanner Support | Freehand sketch | Raster Filters | Change color depth | Image resize | Rotate | Crop | Raster Shapes |
[edit] Vector Editing Features
| Fills & hatch | Vector combine | Rotate & move | Polylines | Spline curves | Lines to curves cmd. & vice versa | Vector shapes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WiseImage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Limited | Yes |
| AutoTrace | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Easy Trace | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Freehand | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Illustrator | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| MagicTracer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Potrace | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| R2V Toolkit | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Ras2Vec | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Image2Xaml | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Raster to Vector | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| RasterVect | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| RaveGrid | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Scan2CAD Pro | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Silhouette Pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Vextractor | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| VPHybridCAD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WinTopo Freeware | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| WinTopo Pro | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| XTrace | ? | ? | Yes (3D rotation) | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes |
| Fills & hatch | Vector combine | Rotate & move | Polylines | Spline curves | Lines to curves cmd. & vice versa | Vector shapes |
[edit] Free software
- AutoTrace
- Delineate - frontend for AutoTrace or Potrace that exports to SVG
- Inkscape - conversion and creation tool (uses Potrace for raster to vector conversion)
- Potrace
[edit] Freeware Software
[edit] Proprietary software
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Streamline
- AlgoLab R2V Toolkit
- Corel PowerTRACE
- Easy Trace
- Elgorithms MagicTracer
- Img2Dxf - free demo available
- Macromedia FreeHand
- Macromedia Flash
- MST Viewer
- Project5 Photocut Processor
- PhotoLine
- Rasterex
- RasterVect
- RaveGrid - a conversion program for turning Bitmap images into SVG / EPS vector notations.
- S.A. Silhouette
- Scan2CAD
- TracTrix - from Trix Systems
- Vector Magic - from Stanford University
- Vextractor - free demo available
- VPHybridCAD from softelec - free demo available
- WinTopo Pro
- WiseImage - WiseImage and WiseImage Pro
- Xara Xtreme
- XTrace - from Ronny Schütz - free demo available
