Hello
Due to the popularity of the .svg format among designers, I created a web app that quickly converts the bitmap format to .svg. I would be grateful if you could try the app on your screen and let me know if it works on your screen or not.
This web app is responsive but not suitable for tiny screens.
why?
Any designer has Photoshop or Illustrator to make SVGs without relying on a web app.
?
I first tried a 4mb jpeg, with no luck. After the app worked on it for about four minutes, I gave up and retried it with a 200kb file. This produced an “Attempting to connect to the server” error.
I’m unsure why anyone would want to convert a bitmapped image to SVG — the SVG vector will look worse than the original, with no performance enhancements over the JPEG or PNG. There’s certainly an important role for SVGs, but converting a photo to an SVG vector file isn’t one of them. Perhaps I’m missing something about what you’re trying to accomplish.
Thanks, I will work on it and repair it.
SVG has become a second opportunity for many designers across various design fields. The first was Macromedia Flash (later Adobe Flash), which faded away as new technologies emerged and took its place.
Explore why the SVG format is used in AI chats like Microsoft Copilot, chatGPT, Claude, and others. You can also search for it online.
Have you ever questioned why so much effort and money went into creating SVG if bitmap formats were so effective?
Yes, I’m familiar with SVGs and have used them often for several years in interface design. I’m also familiar with the LLMs you mentioned and others, along with their SVG-generation capabilities based on written instructions. However, none of these LLMs use third-party SVGs, so perhaps I’m not understanding their relevance to your SVG conversion tool.
I’m also very familiar with Adobe Illustrator’s built-in bitmap-to-vector functions. Unfortunately, they produce terrible results, with weird overlaps, wacky control point positions, an inability to determine when straight lines and corners are needed, and they have a complete inability to make aesthetic decisions. The files are bloated, are a total mess to modify, and can sometimes crash RIPs. This is on top of the converted imagery being a poor representation of the original bitmapped image. Are you saying your software can do a better job?
I’m a professional designer with decades of experience using vector and bitmap tools. You said SVG has become an additional opportunity for many designers across various design fields. I don’t see it that way. SVG is simply another vector format that’s simple and relevant for those instances that benefit from a small, easy-to-interpret, non-proprietary, and scalable vector format — website design, for example. Every professional designer already has the tools to create SVGs from scratch. Why do we need your tool to do what we already avoid doing — converting raster files to vector.
With all that said, I obviously don’t know everything. Perhaps I’ve misunderstood what your software does, its capabilities, what you have in mind, or the intended audience. If you want to educate me, I’m all ears and hope you create something useful.
So much effort goes into developing such an application and making it web based.
First off congratulations for taking the time to create it and share with us.
I agree with others here that the usage and target audience seems to be quite strange given that any designer worth their salt can create SVGs with far better results.
Anyway.
Everyone here knows how frustrating it is to convert bitmaps to SVG it’s a complex process at times, like the complexities of maintaining quality while creating clean, editable vector paths.
Professional designers often rely on tools like Illustrator for such tasks, I can see how your app might appeal to casual users or non-designers who don’t have access to professional software. It might also find a niche for quick prototyping or simple design tasks.
What is your vision for this app?
Who do you see as the primary audience?
Is it intended for designers, developers, or perhaps hobbyists?
And are there specific scenarios where your app would shine over other methods?
I just want to know a bit more about what you’re trying to achieve.
When creating new tools it’s always good to have strong differentiators.
Sharing your results vs competitors would highlight why your tools should be used and superior to others on the market already
I’ve tested and implemented many software solutions over the years for a variety of workflows.
Here’s where I see you can make vast improvements.
Optimisation - touched on already
Customisation
Better interface
Other ideas
Accessibility
I think it has a long way to go to be the go to tool.
In the time I wrote this out your website is still converting this image
And I’ve come to the end of my post and I’ll just cancel the SVG request because it’s taking too long.
(I even added another post elsewhere to give it a chance but it’s still converting.
Can you beat this?
https://www.adobe.com/express/feature/image/convert/jpg-to-svg
I gave it a particularly intricate and fluffy cat photo to try and it did a reasonable facsimile in under 12 seconds.
(I particularly like Adobe’s amusing “mixing art and science” note as you wait for it to render.)
Was it a good standin for the image? Nope. Not unless you like the paint-by-number look.
I hadn’t known about this site. I uploaded a 250-kilobyte jpeg and got a 12.3-megabyte paint-by-number SVG (below in Illustrator’s outline mode with all the anchor points selected).
Why converting a photo to vector outlines would be useful is still a mystery to me. Perhaps it could be adapted for embroidery or screen printing, but I can’t envision more than a handful of instances where the results would be a good solution to a design problem.
Yeah…um, I didn’t sign up for the Adobe download. 
But I’m sure my fluffy cat approached that, 
What it did to the image Smurf posted above was totally unacceptable. The text was a laugh riot. With all the OCR capabilities out there, you’d think an AI could be programmed to recognize text in a photo.
I tried a few SVG converters just now to see what happens - and VectorMagic gave the best results.
I don’t think the issue is with the OCR - I think that’s possible, it’s finding the font, applying the font and making it fit as the previous - which is probably why it converts it all to outlines and no live text.
So it would be cool if it put the text on a different layer (or sublayer if you want to get technical).
Then it still requires a human to redo the text.
If AI coudl find the font and apply it then that’s something I haven’t seen done.
That already exists. Her name is RedKittieKat.
AI can’t apply the font unless it buys it. 
If you think the newspapers and Deviant Artists are screaming, imagine the font foundries.
I mean this is another chance after Flash to use vectors on a web page.
For complex images, it’s better to use PNG on a site. SVG is more suitable for simple shapes and graphics, such as in UI/UX or games.
You can make a model ( part of AI) to do it for you. Or ask some one to do it if you have any opinion.
It is suitable for all of these. While it’s not based on AI, I might create a version that is.
I’m aware it has issues, but I’m working on improving it more quickly.
Another issue that many people don’t pay attention to is the financial benefits of such projects. For example, through advertising or sponsorship. For example, all computers have the ability to record sound, but such programs exist on the web.
Simple graphics that lend themselves to vector images should be redrawn to ensure quality, not converted. A raster-to-vector conversion will always be inferior in quality to that of the original raster file. AI might improve the results down the road, but it’s not there yet.
None of that reply makes any sense.
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