I would like to convert images that have been uploaded by the user (in various formats and conditions) to a vector image format such as .eps. I’m primarily working in PHP.
What options exist?
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I would like to convert images that have been uploaded by the user (in various formats and conditions) to a vector image format such as .eps. I’m primarily working in PHP.
What options exist?
There are a small number of autotracing software projects released under GPU (for example, POTRACE that you could run via system commands. I can’t attest to their quality. Tracing almost always requires some element of human supervision to avoid things looking like a mess of broken pottery, but you won’t know until you try. Rather than triggering the tracer via PHP, I would use PHP simply to save incoming images to a temporary folder and then, through cronjob (one- or two-per-minute), crank through the holding folder in batches (you could pace it that way and avoid it being used as a way to DoS your site).
I’m thinking of doing something slightly similar (though not graphic related) for an upcoming project, and I’m considering doing all my heavy lifting on a desktop machine, which would fetch all incoming files and process them before FTPing them back to the server. I’m somewhat nervous about having any complex resource-intensive script like this running on a web server.