Old logos, Windows Paint drawings and scanner output often come as .bmp. Trace them into scalable SVG paths here.
Loading the BMP to SVG tool…
Processed on your device. Files are never uploaded.
Drop a .bmp file onto the artboard.
Use Black & white for scans and line drawings, or Colour for logos.
Download the SVG.
BMP stores raw, uncompressed pixels, so there are no compression artefacts to clean up. That usually means a sharp trace. Large scans can be several megabytes; the trace resolution slider downsizes them for tracing while keeping the SVG at the original dimensions.
Yes. Bitmap is another word for raster image, and vector usually means SVG for web and design work.
No. The image is decoded and traced by JavaScript in your own browser tab, in a background worker. Nothing is sent to a server, which is why it also works offline once the page has loaded.
A vectorizer describes every colour region as a filled path. A photo has thousands of tiny regions, so the SVG can end up larger than the original file. Vectorizing works best on logos, icons, line art, signatures and flat illustrations with a handful of colours.