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 | Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, AmigaOS/AROS |
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 | Linux |
Creator | Released | Latest version | List price (USD) | License | Supported OS (without emulation) |
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 |
NAME | Export universal DXF | inside AutoCAD application available | 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 | inside AutoCAD application available | Curve recognition | Circle recognition | Arc recognition | Orthogonal line detection | Corner detection | Line connection |
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 |
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 |
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