Photograph a sketch, drop it in, and get editable vector line work out. True centerline tracing keeps every stroke a single path — not a doubled outline. Free, unlimited, and your art never leaves your device.
Pencil, ink, marker, or a whiteboard photo — the pipeline adapts.
Strokes are thinned to a skeleton and traced once, with per-point stroke width preserved. Perfect for pen plotters, engraving and clean editing in Illustrator or Inkscape.
One slider decides what counts as ink. Capture faint pencil under-drawing, or keep only the confident ink lines — you choose.
Strip the paper background for a transparent SVG, or keep a clean white backing. Interior white areas (eyes, highlights) are preserved either way.
Flip ink and paper to get white line work on transparent — ready for dark websites, apparel prints and glass etching.
iPhone HEIC uploads work directly. Uneven lighting and paper texture are handled by thresholding — no scanner needed.
Everything runs in your browser. Sketches for client work or unannounced projects are never uploaded anywhere.
No account, no watermark. From photo to editable SVG in under a minute.
Open Vector Squid →Ordinary tracers outline each stroke, producing two parallel paths around every line — bad for engraving, plotting and editing. Vector Squid's Line Art mode thins strokes to their skeleton and traces a single centerline path with the original stroke width preserved.
Yes. Phone photos work well — the ink threshold slider compensates for uneven lighting, and the auto-detected background handling removes the paper tone. HEIC files from iPhone upload directly.
Use the ink threshold slider: lowering it captures fainter marks. Scanned-document detection automatically biases toward capturing faded ink.
Yes — the Invert option swaps ink and paper tones, and combined with Remove background it produces white line work on a transparent canvas, perfect for dark-themed designs.
No. Vector Squid runs entirely in your browser — your drawings never leave your device, so unreleased artwork stays private.