How do I convert a hand drawn ink image to layers?

I have an hand drawn image in jpg of black lines on white background (similar to line art) and I want to convert the black lines to a layer.
How can I do this?

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What you're talking about is generically called autotracing in centerline mode. Most autotrace programs can either try to trace all the way around the areas of dark pixels (outline tracing), or try to trace along the middles of areas of dark pixels (centerline tracing).
In Illustrator's autotrace settings, for centerline mode, you turn off the tracing of outlines (fills) and turn on the tracing of centerlines (strokes). That's the basic setting. From there, you try to adjust the various threshold settings to get as close to what you want as you can.
When Illustrator's autotrace feature is set to try to trace centerlines, it also tries to set the vector path stroke weights to approximate the thicknesses of what it interprets as a stroke. So after the autotracing is done, you can expand it and then globally set the stroke weight to a uniform value.
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Please see image below for illustration (please click to enlarge), thanks for your time

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