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Raster Scribe

Plugin ID: 6442

Interactively trace lines in RGB raster maps with live previews, color sampling, and snapping.

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Trace contours, roads, and other lines with live previews, color sampling, snapping, and configurable shortcuts.
Create a temporary line layer, or use an editable MultiLineString or MultiCurve layer.
Requires a GDAL-readable north-up raster with RGB values in bands 1-3. Single-band grayscale
or black-and-white and indexed/palette rasters need conversion to RGB. Rotated, skewed,
and flipped mappings are unsupported. Ordinary LineString layers are unsupported.
Optional Enhanced tracing (slower) uses a bundled Python HFM solver to follow interrupted contours.
Uses the Python libraries supplied with QGIS; no extra dependencies or compiled solver need installing.
Raster Scribe is an independently maintained fork of Raster Tracer by Mikhail Kondratyev.
License: GNU GPL version 3 or later; original component notices are preserved in NOTICE.txt.
https://github.com/IongIer/raster_scribe/blob/master/LICENSE
Original project: https://github.com/mkondratyev85/raster_tracer

Version QGIS >= QGIS <= Date
0.1.0 - 3.40.0 4.99.0 13 Iongler 2026-09-26T17:47:47.230012+00:00