VTRACER(1)

💖 VTRACER(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the vtracer manual page, from the User Commands girlies ✨ this is the page for the vtracer command, and yes, she ate 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vtracer — convert raster images into vector graphics 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

vtracer [OPTIONS] --input input --output output

like, the <italic>--input</italic> and <italic>--output</italic> are the whole point, everything else is OPTIONS on top, slay 🌈

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So vtracer converts raster images into vector graphics and writes SVG output. That's the vibe. Raster goes in, vectors come out, SVG lands on disk. Iconic. 👑

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay this is the part where we get into it, no skimming, all of them, periodt 💖

• -i, --input input — the path to your input raster image. the source. the origin story. 🌸
• -o, --output output — the path to the output vector graphics file. where the glow-up gets written. ✨
• --colormode color_mode — picks your color mode: true-color color mode or binary bw mode. so either full color or straight black-and-white energy, iykyk 🖤🤍
• -p, --color_precision color_precision — how many significant bits get used in an RGB channel. precision girlies rise 🙈
• -c, --corner_threshold corner_threshold — the minimum momentary angle, in degrees, for something to be considered a corner. yes the manual literally says "momentary", and yes we respect it — corner detection is a whole vibe check 📐
• -f, --filter_speckle filter_speckle — discard patches smaller than the given number of pixels. bye bye little speckles, not you getting the screen time, love u tho 💀
• -g, --gradient_step gradient_step — the color difference between gradient layers. gradients so smooth they're giving main character energy 🌈
• --hierarchical hierarchical — picks the hierarchical clustering mode: stacked or cutout. heads up bestie, this only applies to color mode — no color mode, no hierarchical moment 💅
• -m, --mode mode — picks your curve fitting mode: pixel, polygon, or spline. three modes, three aesthetics, all valid 🎀
• --path_precision path_precision — how many decimal places to use in path strings. how many decimals are we giving? exactly this many 🙂‍↕️
• --preset preset — use a preset configuration: bw, poster, or photo. the shortcut. the "I don't want to think about it, just make it cute" button 🔥
• -l, --segment_length segment_length — performs iterative subdivide smoothing until all segments are shorter than this length. keep subdividing till everything's smol, obsessed 🧚
• -s, --splice_threshold splice_threshold — the minimum angle displacement, in degrees, to splice a spline. splicing, but make it geometry ✂️
• -h, --help — print help information. your bestie when you forget a flag 🫶
• -V, --version — print version information. for when you need to know exactly which one you're dealing with 👑
• -- — lol ok

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

vtracer was written by Chris Tsang. legend behavior, honestly 🙌💜

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ok and if you're ever stuck: <italic>--help</italic> is right there, she's literally free. go forth and vectorize, bestie 🦋✨

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and that's the whole page!! this was vtracer 0.6.5, from 2026-06-17, and it's the VTRACER(1) manual, mwah 💖🎀💅