Turn JPG scans, phone photos of drawings and compressed logos into clean SVG paths, with filters for JPEG noise and paper texture. Nothing is uploaded, and there’s no account, watermark or limit.
Drop your JPG or JPEG files onto the drop zone, or click it to browse.
For a pen drawing, signature or scanned line art, choose the Sketch preset. For a colored logo or illustration, choose Logo or Illustration.
Open Advanced settings if the result is noisy: raise the speckle filter to remove JPEG specks, or adjust the black/white threshold to keep faint strokes or drop the paper texture. Then click Convert.
Use Preview to check the edges at high zoom, then Download each SVG or click Download all (.zip).
JPG (or JPEG) is a lossy format designed for photographs. It saves space by simplifying the image in small 8 × 8 pixel blocks, which leaves faint blotches in flat areas and a ripple of off-color pixels along sharp edges. People rarely notice these artifacts, but a tracer does: each blotch can become its own tiny shape.
That is why the speckle filter matters more here than for PNG. Raising it tells the tracer to ignore any patch smaller than the given size, so JPEG noise disappears while real details stay. Lowering the color precision has a similar effect on colored images, because slightly different shades are merged into one fill.
JPG has no transparency, so the background is always a solid color, usually white paper or a white canvas. In color mode the background becomes one large shape at the bottom of the SVG. In Black & white mode only the dark strokes are traced, so the SVG has a transparent background, which is what you want for a signature or a line drawing.
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Scan at 300 dpi or more if you can. More pixels per stroke means smoother curves with any tracing tool.
It works well for line art: a signature photographed on white paper, a hand-lettered quote, a pen sketch, a stamp, a scanned black-and-white logo. Here the Sketch preset turns the strokes into clean black shapes that you can scale, recolor or send to a plotter or vinyl cutter.
It also works for colored logos and flat illustrations saved as JPG, as long as the image is reasonably large and not heavily compressed. If the JPG came from a website thumbnail, look for a larger version first.
It does not work well for real photographs. A portrait or a landscape becomes either a posterized image with a few flat color areas, or thousands of tiny shapes in a file far larger than the JPG. If the goal is a stylized poster effect, try the Illustration preset with a low color precision and accept the result as an artistic effect rather than a faithful copy.
Photograph or scan the signature on plain white paper in good, even light, then use the Sketch preset. If parts of the pen line are missing, raise the black/white threshold; if the paper grain shows up as dots, lower it or raise the speckle filter. The SVG has a transparent background.
Those are JPEG compression artifacts, dust or paper texture being traced as shapes. Open Advanced settings and raise the speckle filter a few pixels at a time until they disappear. For black-and-white artwork, adjusting the threshold also helps.
You can, but the result looks like a poster with flat color areas, not like the photo. Faces and soft lighting need gradients that SVG paths from a tracer can't reproduce faithfully. For a stylized look, try the Illustration preset with a low color precision.
Scanners and phone cameras often make white paper look light grey. In Black & white mode, lower the black/white threshold so the grey paper counts as white while the darker strokes stay black. Better lighting when scanning also helps.
The site sets no limit. Very large images, above about 4 megapixels, are traced at a reduced size so your browser stays responsive, and you'll see a notice when that happens. The SVG still has the original width and height.
No. The JPGs are decoded and traced inside your browser, on your own device. There is no upload, no account and no watermark on the SVG.
Last updated October 28, 2026
Removes spots smaller than this. Raise it for noisy scans.
Lower keeps more sharp corners; higher gives smoother curves.
Higher keeps more distinct colors, with more shapes and a bigger file.
Rounds coordinates and simplifies the code. The shapes don't change visibly.