Please Login or Register to see the link. is a free online application that takes your randy little raster images and converts them into amazingly accurate vector EPS or SVG file. Please Login or Register to see the link. is unfair, but I do it anyway.
Looking at the images side-by-side, VectorMagic does what I’d expect and want a vectorizer to do: take a big-picture view of our messy, aliased (that stair step, building-block appearance) artwork and churn out something appropriate.
The other applications seem to be taking a pixel-by-pixel approach which probably accounts for the additional colors and the unusual corners. It looks as though the big boys (Adobe and Corel) have some catching up to do. Kudos to James Diebel and Jacob Norda, the Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory research project developers, for their work.
All that’s required to run it is a modern browser, a Flash player, and an image to vectorize. There are already a couple of photos in their Please Login or Register to see the link. that look quite stunning as well.
In my opinion its not as good as the old trusty trace it your self method but it sure does require a whole lot less time and its a great start to go back in and clean up.
Below are 1 image I vectorized using VectorMagic. Have a look for yourself.

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