PNG to SVG converter, free, in your browser

Drop the .png file onto the converter at the top of this page, choose Black and white for a one colour logo or Colour for flat artwork, type the width in millimetres and press Download SVG. The page follows the edges between light and dark pixels, simplifies them and writes closed polygons into an SVG in millimetres. PNG is the best input for logos and icons: the edges stay sharp, and a transparent background counts as white. The 240 x 150 px test logo gave 7 contours and 100 points at the default settings.

Drop the .jpg or .jpeg file onto the converter and press Download SVG. JPEG compression adds faint noise around edges, and the traced outline follows that noise, so a JPG logo gives a slightly ragged outline: raise Simplify to smooth it, or start from the PNG or the original logo file if you have one. The EduFacturing logo saved as a JPG gave 43 contours and 744 points in the measured example below.

This free page makes an SVG, not a DXF. DXF export is in the Image Vectorizer (Pro), which uses the same tracing code. For laser cutting an SVG is often enough: many laser programs import SVG, LightBurn among them. Drop the image, choose Black and white, set the width to the real size in millimetres, press Download SVG and check the size after import. The outline is the nominal shape: kerf, the material the beam removes, is not compensated here. The typical kerf is 0.25 to 0.5 mm for a CO2 laser cutting acrylic, wood or MDF and 0.1 to 0.3 mm for a fibre laser cutting metal, and it depends on the material, thickness and focus. The rules core has no figure for diode lasers, so cut a small test shape and measure it. To engrave a photo with tones, use the raster engraving of your laser software on the original image, typically 250 to 400 dpi, instead of a vector trace.

Yes. There is no account, no daily limit and no watermark on the files.

No. The image is read inside your browser tab, drawn on a canvas and traced by code that runs on your own machine, and the SVG file is built there too. The page sends no image and no result anywhere, which matters for client logos and private drawings.

Use Black and white when you need one set of shapes: a one colour logo for cutting, engraving, a stencil or a stamp. The page thresholds the image (automatic Otsu threshold, or your own value from 1 to 254) and traces the dark areas; Invert traces the light areas instead. Use Colour for flat artwork with a few colours: the image is reduced to 2 to 12 colours by median cut and each colour becomes a layer, the biggest areas at the bottom. The background colour becomes a layer too, so hide or delete it if you do not want it. A photo with gradients gives many small islands in either mode; the preview shows that before you download.

The tracer follows the pixel edges, simplifies them with the Ramer-Douglas-Peucker algorithm (tolerance 1.2 px by default) and rounds only the soft corners, once, by corner cutting (Chaikin); corners sharper than 60 degrees stay sharp. The output is closed polygons written as M, L and Z path commands. There are no Bezier curves and no curve fitting, and this is not an AI tracer. For laser cutters, plotters and CNC machines that is an advantage: the machine moves along straight segments anyway, and the preview shows the path that will be cut. It is a drawback when you enlarge a smooth logo a lot or want to edit smooth nodes in a vector editor. For that, use a curve fitting tracer such as Potrace or the Trace Bitmap command of Inkscape.

Cricut Design Space accepts SVG uploads: upload the file, check the size on the canvas and resize there if needed. LightBurn imports SVG files. Fusion 360 can insert an SVG into a sketch. The SVG declares millimetres in its width and height, but programs read units in different ways, so always measure the imported shape against the width you typed and correct the scale in the program if it is off.

Two routes. To get a raised logo on a plate, use Image to STL: it turns the brightness of the image into a height and writes an STL, with no SVG step. To extrude the exact outline of the logo, download the SVG here and open it in SVG to 3D. Keep strokes and text at least 1.0 mm wide in the finished size: that is the narrowest embossed line the EduFacturing rules core allows for FDM printing; it has no figure for resin printing. At 100 mm wide from a 300 px image one pixel is 0.33 mm, so the thinnest stroke is about 3 px.

In black and white mode the dark areas are traced. If the picture is light on a dark background, the background is traced as one large shape: tick Invert. If nothing is found, the manual threshold may be too low for the image: switch back to the automatic threshold or raise it. A single tone image has nothing to trace, and the page says so.

The SVG is in millimetres. You type the width (5 to 1000 mm) and the height follows the image proportions, so nothing is stretched. The SVG has its width and height in mm and a viewBox in the same units. The size on disk depends on the number of points: the test logo made a 1.7 KB SVG. Images larger than 900 pixels on the long side are scaled down before tracing.