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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.
This table gives basic general information about the different vector graphics editors:
Creator
Released
Latest version
List price (USD )
License
Supported OS (without emulation)
CorelDRAW
Corel
1989
2020
$449, $169 upgrade
Proprietary
Windows
Easy Trace
Easy Trace Group
2015
12.0
960 €, 480 € upgrade, Version 7.99 and 8.65 free
Proprietary
Windows
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Systems
1985
24.1.0 (CC2020)
$19.99 per month
Proprietary
Windows, macOS
Graphic Tracer Professional
GraphicPowers.com
2016
release 5
$15 per month/ $120 per year
Proprietary
Windows, macOS due fall 2017
Inkscape (using Potrace)
Inkscape.org
2003
0.92.5 1.0RC1
free
GPL
Windows, macOS, Linux
ImageTracer
András Jankovics
2015
1.2.6 (2020)
free
Public domain
Cross-platform , JavaScript or Java based
Potrace
Peter Selinger
2001
1.16 (Sep. 2019)
free
GPL
Cross-platform , Windows and POSIX
Scan2CAD
Avia Systems
1997
v10.1
$49 - $149 /month
Proprietary
Windows, macOS
WinTopo Freeware
SoftSoft Ltd
1999
2015 (v1.76)
free
Freeware
Windows
WinTopo Pro
SoftSoft Ltd
2000
2015 (v3.6)
$299
Proprietary
Windows
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer
Xara Group Ltd.
1994
2018 (v16)
$89.99
Proprietary
Windows
Super Vectorizer
Effectmatrix Ltd.
2013
2016 (v1.6.6)
$29.99
Proprietary
macOS
AutoTrace
Martin Weber
1998
2002 (v0.31.1)
free
GPL
Cross-platform , POSIX (mainly Unix-like )
Creator
Released
Latest version
List price (USD )
License
Supported OS (without emulation)
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
Easy Trace
12800x
No Limit
?
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Graphic Tracer Professional
No limit
No limit
No limit
No
?
?
Yes
No
Illustrator
640x
?
?
Yes
?
?
No
Yes
Potrace
N/A
?
?
No
?
?
No
No
ImageTracer[ 1]
N/A
No limit
No limit
No
No
?
No
Yes
Scan2CAD
64K
No limit
No limit
Yes
?
?
Yes
Yes
WinTopo Pro[ 2]
512x
No limit
No limit
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Maximum zoom
Object limit per document
Control point limit
Color management for print
Thumbnails
adjust image (functions)
Text Recognition (OCR )
Scripting support
CAD features
NAME
Export universal DXF
Available in AutoCAD application
Curve recognition
Circle recognition
Arc recognition
Orthogonal line detection
Corner detection
Line connection
Easy Trace
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Graphic Tracer Professional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Illustrator
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Potrace
Yes
No
No
?
?
?
Yes
?
ImageTracer
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Scan2CAD
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WinTopo Pro
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Export universal DXF
Available in AutoCAD application
Curve recognition
Circle recognition
Arc recognition
Orthogonal line detection
Corner detection
Line connection
Raster editing features
Scanner support
Freehand sketch
Raster filters
Change color depth
Image resize
Rotate
Crop
Raster shapes
Easy Trace
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Graphic Tracer Professional
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
N/A
Illustrator
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Potrace
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
ImageTracer
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Scan2CAD
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WinTopo Pro
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
?
AutoTrace
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Scanner Support
Freehand sketch
Raster Filters
Change color depth
Image resize
Rotate
Crop
Raster Shapes
Vector editing features
Fills & hatch
Vector combine
Rotate & move
Polylines
Spline curves
Lines to curves cmd. & vice versa
Vector shapes
Font ID & replace
Easy Trace
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Graphic Tracer Professional
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Illustrator
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Potrace
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
ImageTracer
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Scan2CAD
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WinTopo Pro
?
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
?
?
No
AutoTrace
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Fills & hatch
Vector combine
Rotate & move
Polylines
Spline curves
Lines to curves cmd. & vice versa
Vector shapes
Free software
Proprietary software
Discontinued software
References