How to get uniform stroke outline from shape

Question

I scan in drawings as shapes with Adobe Capture, and I want to convert them to strokes so I can make the line thickness uniform. I know you can make shapes thinner with Path Offset, but that causes parts of the outline to disappear. Just getting the inner and outer paths makes odd shapes that aren't connected anywhere the lines overlap. Is there a way for Path Offset to keep the lines connected while thinning them? I think this was asked here https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1363651 but unfortunately, that post is deleted now. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

theterriblestidea · Accepted Answer

Update: I figured out how to do it! Rasterize your shape, use Image Trace, then select Line Art, and Expand. You will get just the center line.

Monika Gause · Answer

For this to work, the tracing would need to be done as lines and not shapes.

Illustrator's Image Trace function has the ability to somehow trace lines, but the result is far from logical - meaning they are connected in somehow weird ways.

If it's a simple drawing, you can trace it manually. For everything else, this will be tedious.

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