16 Free Image Tools That Run in Your Browser: Compress, Convert, Trace, Remove Backgrounds & Read Text

16 Free Image Tools That Run in Your Browser: Compress, Convert, Trace, Remove Backgrounds & Read Text

Almost every image problem is small. A photo is 6 MB and needs to be under 500 KB. A logo arrived as a PNG and needs to be an SVG. A screenshot has text in it that you'd rather not retype. A product shot has a white background that needs to be transparent. None of these are hard jobs — but the usual path to solving them is installing something, signing up for something, or uploading a file you'd rather not hand over to a stranger's server just to shave a few hundred kilobytes off it. The image tools on FWD Tools are sixteen free, browser-based tools for exactly those small jobs — editing, compressing, converting, tracing, extracting, and generating. The important part is what happens to your file: nothing is uploaded. Every one of these reads your image locally — from the file picker, a drag-and-drop, or a paste — does the work on a canvas in the tab you're looking at, and hands you back a download. No account, no queue, no size cap set by someone's hosting bill. Who…