imagetracerjava

alt Bitmap to Svg

Simple raster image tracer and vectorizer written in Java for desktop. See https://github.com/jankovicsandras/imagetracerandroid for the Android version.

by András Jankovics

This is a port of imagetracer.js: https://github.com/jankovicsandras/imagetracerjs

Check this out for a refactored version with better color quantization algorithm: https://github.com/miguelemosreverte/imagetracerjava

1.1.2

1.1.1

Running as a standalone program

Warning: if the outfilename parameter is not specified, then this will overwrite .svg .

Basic usage: 

java -jar ImageTracer.jar smiley.png

With options:

java -jar ImageTracer.jar smiley.png outfilename output.svg ltres 1 qtres 1 pathomit 8 colorsampling 1 numberofcolors 16 mincolorratio 0.02 colorquantcycles 3 scale 1 simplifytolerance 0 roundcoords 1 lcpr 0 qcpr 0 desc 1 viewbox 0 blurradius 0 blurdelta 20

Including in Java projects

Add ImageTracer.jar to your build path, import, then use the static methods:

import jankovicsandras.imagetracer.ImageTracer;

...

ImageTracer.saveString(
                "output.svg" ,
                ImageTracer.imageToSVG("input.jpg",null,null)
);

With options and palette

// Options
HashMap<String,Float> options = new HashMap<String,Float>();

// Tracing
options.put("ltres",1f);
options.put("qtres",1f);
options.put("pathomit",8f);

// Color quantization
options.put("colorsampling",1f); // 1f means true ; 0f means false: starting with generated palette
options.put("numberofcolors",16f);
options.put("mincolorratio",0.02f);
options.put("colorquantcycles",3f);

// SVG rendering
options.put("scale",1f);
options.put("roundcoords",1f); // 1f means rounded to 1 decimal places, like 7.3 ; 3f means rounded to 3 places, like 7.356 ; etc.
options.put("lcpr",0f);
options.put("qcpr",0f);
options.put("desc",1f); // 1f means true ; 0f means false: SVG descriptions deactivated
options.put("viewbox",0f); // 1f means true ; 0f means false: fixed width and height

// Selective Gauss Blur
options.put("blurradius",0f); // 0f means deactivated; 1f .. 5f : blur with this radius
options.put("blurdelta",20f); // smaller than this RGB difference will be blurred

// Palette
// This is an example of a grayscale palette
// please note that signed byte values [ -128 .. 127 ] will be converted to [ 0 .. 255 ] in the getsvgstring function
byte[][] palette = new byte[8][4];
for(int colorcnt=0; colorcnt < 8; colorcnt++){
    palette[colorcnt][0] = (byte)( -128 + colorcnt * 32); // R
    palette[colorcnt][1] = (byte)( -128 + colorcnt * 32); // G
    palette[colorcnt][2] = (byte)( -128 + colorcnt * 32); // B
    palette[colorcnt][3] = (byte)127;             // A
}

ImageTracer.saveString(
                "output.svg" ,
                ImageTracer.imageToSVG("input.jpg",options,palette)
);

Deterministic output

See options for deterministic tracing

Main Functions

Function name Arguments Returns
imageToSVG|String filename, HashMap<String,Float> options /*can be null*/, byte [][] palette /*can be null*/|String /*SVG content*/
imageToSVG|BufferedImage image, HashMap<String,Float> options /*can be null*/, byte [][] palette /*can be null*/|String /*SVG content*/
imagedataToSVG|ImageData imgd, HashMap<String,Float> options /*can be null*/, byte [][] palette /*can be null*/|String /*SVG content*/
imageToTracedata|String filename, HashMap<String,Float> options /*can be null*/, byte [][] palette /*can be null*/|IndexedImage /*read the source for details*/
imageToTracedata|BufferedImage image, HashMap<String,Float> options /*can be null*/, byte [][] palette /*can be null*/|IndexedImage /*read the source for details*/
imagedataToTracedata|ImageData imgd, HashMap<String,Float> options /*can be null*/, byte [][] palette /*can be null*/|IndexedImage /*read the source for details*/

Helper Functions

Function name Arguments Returns
saveString|String filename, String str|void
loadImageData|String filename|ImageData /*read the source for details*/
loadImageData|BufferedImage image|ImageData /*read the source for details*/

ImageData is similar to ImageData here.

There are more functions for advanced users, read the source if you are interested. :)

Options

Option name Default value Meaning
ltres|1f Error treshold for straight lines.
qtres|1f Error treshold for quadratic splines.
pathomit|8f Edge node paths shorter than this will be discarded for noise reduction.
colorsampling|1f Enable or disable color sampling. 1f is on, 0f is off.
numberofcolors|16f Number of colors to use on palette if pal object is not defined.
mincolorratio|0.02f Color quantization will randomize a color if fewer pixels than (total pixels*mincolorratio) has it.
colorquantcycles|3f Color quantization will be repeated this many times.
blurradius|0f Set this to 1f..5f for selective Gaussian blur preprocessing.
blurdelta|20f RGBA delta treshold for selective Gaussian blur preprocessing.
scale|1f Every coordinate will be multiplied with this, to scale the SVG.
roundcoords|1f rounding coordinates to a given decimal place. 1f means rounded to 1 decimal place like 7.3 ; 3f means rounded to 3 places, like 7.356
viewbox|0f Enable or disable SVG viewBox. 1f is on, 0f is off.
desc|1f Enable or disable SVG descriptions. 1f is on, 0f is off.
lcpr|0f Straight line control point radius, if this is greater than zero, small circles will be drawn in the SVG. Do not use this for big/complex images.
qcpr|0f Quadratic spline control point radius, if this is greater than zero, small circles and lines will be drawn in the SVG. Do not use this for big/complex images.

Process overview

See Process overview and Ideas for improvement

License

The Unlicense / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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