Short answer: No. Just keep using \includegraphics with your jpeg files.
Longer answer:
use something like inkscape or potrace (a command-line tool that has been assimilated into inkscape) to convert to some form of vector graphic (e.g. svg)
use something like SVG2TikZ to convert to tikz code
write and debug a script to batch-convert each image in your image folder into tikz code
start inserting large chunks of tikz into your document
realise that you have larger pdf files and worse-looking graphics
go back to using includegraphics with your jpeg files.
(Posted as community wiki, since it is a summary/extension of the partial answers posted as comments above... also, since it is not terribly helpful.)
Best Answer
I achieved the best results with
pdftoppm
, the anti-aliasing is much better than imagemagicksconvert
.Just do:
I usually use 300 or 600 dpi.
pdftoppm
comes withpoppler
(packagepoppler-utils
on Ubuntu).