'How to convert PNG/JPEG images to svg with ImageMagick?

It seems that with potrace installed, I can just run magick convert x.png x.svg or magick convert x.jpg x.svg.

However this just returns a deformed image in black and white, and I need the svg image to be in full color. Additionally, I really need the file format to be svg because svg images are small and portable, and I don't have a lot of disk space on my server.
Does anyone know how to convert png/jpeg to svg while retaining color?

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Solution 1:[1]

For this conversion you need to install ImageMagick and Potrace. Potrace can convert pbm/pgm/ppm/bmp to SVG. So the process of conversion will be like this:

  • first need to convert png/jpg to pbm/pgm/ppm/bmp using imagemagick.
  • Then convert it to svg using potrace via command line.

Here's a working example with png. you can use jpg here instead of png file.

    $im = new Imagick($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/pngtosvg/image/image.png'); 
    $im->setImageFormat('pbm');
    $im->writeImage($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/pngtosvg/image/pbmimage.pbm'); 
    shell_exec('cd image && potrace ' . 'pbmimage.pbm'  . ' -b svg'); 
    echo file_get_contents($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/pngtosvg/image/pbmimage.svg');

For further explanation you can do visit this amazing repo. raster_images-to-svg

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