bitmap2vector

Contents

• Summary
• Install
• Usage
• Options
• Examples
• Related
• TODO

Summary

• Convert bitmap images like PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF to SVG vector graphics using the image tracer implementation imagetracerjs
• JavaScript API for Node.js and Browser API.
• TypeScript type definitions.
• Command Line interface

Install

npm install bitmap2vector

Usage

import { bitmap2vector } from 'bitmap2vector';
 
// from file input stream 
const out = await bitmap2vector({
  input: readFileSync('test/assets/panda.png')
})
writeFileSync('output.svg', out.content)
 
// from URL or path
const out = await bitmap2vector({
  input: '../assets/bluebells.jpg'
})
aDiv.innerHTML = out.content

Options

• input: string | Buffer: Path or glob file pattern to .png files, relative to current dir. in current folder.
• help?: boolean: Print usage information, then exit.
• debug?: boolean: Prints debug messages.
• format?: 'svg': output file format. Currently only svg is supported
• ltres?: number: Error threshold for straight lines. Default value: 1.
• qtres?: number: Error threshold for quadratic splines. Default value: 1.
• pathomit?: number: \tEdge node paths shorter than this will be discarded for noise reduction. Default value: 8.
• rightangleenhance?: boolean: Enhance right angle corners. Default value: 1.
• colorsampling?: 0 | 1 | 2: 0: disabled, generating a palette; 1: randomsampling; 2: deterministic sampling. Default value: 2.
• numberofcolors?: number: \tNumber of colors to use on palette if pal object is not defined. Default value: 16.
• mincolorratio?: number: \tColor quantization will randomize a color if fewer pixels than (total pixels *mincolorratio) has it. \tDefault value: 0.
• colorquantcycles?: number: Color quantization will be repeated this many times. Default value: 3.
• layering?: 0 | 1: 0: sequential ; 1: parallel
• strokewidth?: number: SVG stroke-width. Default value: 1.
• linefilter?: boolean: Enable or disable line filter for noise reduction. Default value: false.
• scale?: number: Every coordinate will be multiplied with this, to scale the SVG. Default value: 1.
• roundcoords?: number: rounding coordinates to a given decimal place. 1 means rounded to 1 decimal place like 7.3 ; 3 means rounded to 3places, like 7.356. Default value: 1.
• viewbox?: boolean: Enable or disable SVG viewbox. Default value: false.
• desc?: boolean: Enable or disable SVG descriptions. Default value: false.
• blurradius?: number: \tSet this to 1..5 for selective Gaussian blur preprocessing. Default value: 0.
• blurdelta?: number: \tRGBA delta treshold for selective Gaussian blur preprocessing. Default value: 20.

Examples

TODO

Related

• svg-png-converter
• render-dot

## TODO

• document src/options.ts
• options in readme
• node js basic tests
• browser basic tests