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.

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	2008	8.5	999 Euro, 499 Euro upgrade	Proprietary
Freehand	Macromedia	1988	11 (MX)	$399, $99 upgrade	Proprietary
Illustrator	Adobe	1985	12 (CS2)	$499, $169 upgrade	Proprietary
MagicTracer	Elgorithms MagicTracer	2005	2.0	$59	Demoware
MST Viewer	MS Technology	2002	14.1	Commercial Use Only	Proprietary
PhotoLine	Computerinsel GmbH	1997	14.02	59 Euro	Shareware
Potrace	Peter Selinger	2001	1.8	free	GPL
R2V Toolkit	AlgoLab	?	2.91	$99	Shareware
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	Shareware
RasterVect	RasterVect	1992	10.2	$79	Shareware
RaveGrid	RaveGrid	2006	2.5	free for personal use (commercial licenses available)	Proprietary
Scan2CAD Pro	Softcover Intn'l	1997	7.4a	$469, $190 upgrade	Demoware
Silhouette Pro	Free Soft S.A.	1992	1.9.4	$359	Demoware
Adobe Streamline	Adobe	?	4.0	?	Proprietary
Vector Magic	Vector Magic	2007	0.23.11030	Token Based	Proprietary
Vextractor	VextraSoft	2001	3.70	$99	Shareware
VPHybridCAD	softelec	2007	9.03	$1400	Proprietary
WinTopo Freeware	SoftSoft	1998	1.661	free	Freeware
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)	Shareware
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

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
Easy Trace
Freehand
Illustrator
MagicTracer
MST Viewer
PhotoLine
Potrace
R2V Toolkit
Ras2Vec
Image2XAML
Raster to Vector
RasterVect
RaveGrid		(contact authors for non-gui version)	(contact authors for non-gui version)
Scan2CAD Pro
Silhouette Pro
Vector Magic
Vextractor
VPHybridCAD
WinTopo
RasVector
WiseImage
XTrace
	Windows	Mac OS X	Unix	AmigaOS/AROS	IBM z/OS

"Unix" includes the similar Linux and BSD operating systems.

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
Easy Trace	12800x
Freehand	64x
Illustrator	64x
MagicTracer	12800x
MST Viewer	No Limit	No Limit	No Limit
Potrace	N/A
R2V Toolkit	N/A
Ras2Vec
Image2XAML
Raster to Vector
RasterVect	No limit
RaveGrid	No Limit	No Limit	N/A	N/A
Scan2CAD Pro
Silhouette Pro	64x
Vector Magic
Vextractor	25x	No limit	No limit
VPHybridCAD	No limit	No limit	No limit
WinTopo Freeware	+/-512x	No limit	N/A
WinTopo Pro	+/-512x	No limit	No limit
RasVector	N/A
WiseImage	No limit	More than 100 000	No limit
XTrace								(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

AutoCAD Features

NAME	Export universal DXF	inside AutoCAD application available	Curve recognition	Circle recognition	Arc recognition	Orthogonal line detection	Corner detection	Line connection
AutoTrace
Easy Trace
Freehand
Illustrator
MagicTracer
Potrace
R2V Toolkit
Ras2Vec
Image2XAML
Raster to Vector
RasterVect
RaveGrid
Scan2CAD Pro
Silhouette Pro
Vector Magic
Vextractor
VPHybridCAD
WinTopo Freeware
WinTopo Pro
WiseImage
XTrace
	Export universal DXF	inside AutoCAD application available	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
AutoTrace	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Easy Trace
Freehand
Illustrator
MagicTracer
MST Viewer
Potrace	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
R2V Toolkit
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
RaveGrid	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Scan2CAD Pro
Silhouette Pro
Vextractor
VPHybridCAD	, Direct Large-Format-Scanner interface for Contex, Colortrac, Graphtec, HP, KIP plus TWAIN-Interface
WinTopo Freeware
WinTopo Pro
WiseImage	Contex, Graphtec, Colortrac, SmartLF, KIP, TWAIN
XTrace	N/A	?	Partial					?
	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
WiseImage						Limited
AutoTrace	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Easy Trace
Freehand
Illustrator
MagicTracer
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
RaveGrid	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Scan2CAD Pro
Silhouette Pro
Vextractor
VPHybridCAD
WinTopo Freeware
WinTopo Pro
XTrace	?	?	(3D rotation)			?
	Fills & hatch	Vector combine	Rotate & move	Polylines	Spline curves	Lines to curves cmd. & vice versa	Vector shapes

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
• Ras2Vec

Freeware Software

• WinTopo Freeware

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
• Raster to Vector
• 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

References

See also

• Raster to vector