I make quite a lot of logos and icons with AI image tools, and sooner or later every one of them needs to become an SVG. That's where things always went wrong. The free converters would turn my simple logos into thousands of anchor points. The camera in the video got 8,070 points from potrace, for what is really just three circles and a few rounded shapes. The better converters wanted me to pay before I could properly check the result. And if I wanted to move, rotate or recolor individual elements, it was back to Illustrator. So I built VecSnap, and got a little obsessed along the way. Rather than simply tracing pixels, it tries to understand the shapes that make up a logo. A circle comes back as an actual circle, and that camera goes from 8,070 to just 49 anchor points. Across my test set, that's around 8 to 12 times fewer points than free tracers. You can inspect and fix the file before spending anything. Shapes are highlighted so you can see how everything is built. You can move, resize, rotate, flip or hide them, change colors across the whole image, or merge all those almost-identical shades into the few colors you actually need. There's also a centerline option for turning line drawings into single paths, useful for pen plotters, Cricut and laser cutting. And it works inside Claude and ChatGPT too, which is how the video ends. A few things I'm still working on: Detailed illustrations can take up to a minute. Speed is next on my list. It's not designed for photos, and it'll tell you that before you spend anything. It's not perfect. I'm improving the engine every week, and feedback will help me decide what to tackle next. You can convert images for free, without an account. A free account lets you edit and download 3 files. After that, it's one credit per image, with all formats and re-downloads included. No subscription. This is my first public launch, and I'm curious to see what people think. If you've got an image that other converters haven't handled well, send it to me by DM. I'll have a look myself, and if VecSnap can't handle it yet, I'll tell you why. What would you use it for, and what am I missing? https://vecsnap.com   submitted by   /u/ZbaboonZ [link]   [comments]