I can rest knowing that ConvertX solves all my file conversion needs.

There are a few open source tools around that do bitmap -> vector tracing, for instance potrace which is the engine used by Inkscape and also has available python bindings (pypotrace). But sometimes, ...

This is meant to be a fairly complete way to dump an entire SVG document in, and get a set of Bezier curves out. SVG has a lot of features, including things like colors, line weights, masks... many of ...