AutoTrace Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to AutoTrace for Windows and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is Vector Magic. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try VTracer or potrace. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to AutoTrace and 19 are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to AutoTrace are SewArt Embroidery Digitizer, ZebraTRACE, CR8tracer and Super Vectorizer Pro.

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  1. Vector Magic icon
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    Vector Magic converts bitmap images like JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF to vector formats SVG, EPS, PDF with full-color tracing. It requires no installation and offers editable vectorization settings with integration for design applications, allowing true vector creations without blur.

    33 Vector Magic alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
     
  2. VTracer icon
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    visioncortex VTracer is an open source software to convert raster images (like jpg & png) into vector graphics (svg). It can vectorize graphics and photographs and trace the curves to output compact vector files.

    30 VTracer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  3. potrace icon
     19 likes

    An open source command line utility that converts raster images to scalable vector graphics.

    34 potrace alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. SewArt (SA) is an embroidery digitizer for converting raster image files (.jpg/.png, etc), vector images (*.svg, *.emf), and clipart into embroidery file formats.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  5. ZebraTRACE icon
     6 likes

    ZebraTrace is a simple tool to trace bitmap images into a pattern of curves with a variable width. You can control amount of curves, resolution, min and max width, functions for plotting the curves.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    ZebraTRACE vs AutoTrace Comments
    SamB
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    ZebraTrace does not attempt to trace around the existing boundaries of an image, but does something more like halftoning

    • ZebraTRACE is Free and Open SourceAutoTrace is also Free and Open Source
  6. CR8tracer icon
     6 likes

    Convert bitmap images into monochrome vector formats. CR8tracer is a free, open-source GUI for Peter Selinger's 'Potrace' distributed under the GNU General Public License.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • potrace
     
  7. Super Vectorizer Pro is a professional image vector tracing converter on Mac & Win that automatically traces image lines and converts bitmap images like JPEG, GIF and PNG to clean, scalable vector graphic of Ai, SVG, DXF and PDF.

    75 Super Vectorizer Pro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. LineTracer icon
     5 likes

    LineTracer is a tool for converting scanned hand-drawn sketches to vector format. It exports to EPS, which means the output can be used by about any program. It is primarily meant for helping illustrators and animators. The application is GUI based and runs on Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. KVEC icon
     3 likes

    KVEC is a tool which can vectorize images using several graphic formats: WMF Windows Metafile, Enhanced Metafile, AutoCad DXF, HPGL, ART, Postscript, Adobe Illustrator AI, SVG/SVGZ (Scalable Vector Graphics), SWF, DST, HTML.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
  10. Wintopo icon
     2 likes

    WinTopo is a high quality software application for converting TIF, JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP files and scanned images into useful vector files suitable for CAD, GIS and CNC applications.

    22 Wintopo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. RasterVect icon
     2 likes

    CAD, raster to vector conversion tools, vectorizing. Vectorize your scan and convert it to a CAD drawing with RasterVect.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Delineate icon
     2 likes

    Delineate is a tool for converting raster images to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) using AutoTrace or potrace. It loads images using JIU and displays results using Batik. Input formats are JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, PNM, PBM, PGM, PPM, IFF, PCD, PSD, RAS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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