🖼️ Markdown Image to Text (OCR)

A Visual Studio Code extension that extracts text from images in Markdown files using Tesseract.js.
Simply hover over an image in a Markdown file and click Extract text — or run OCR across the entire document in one go!

🚀 Features

• 🔍 Hover over an image to extract its text
• 📑 Batch scan all images in a document and paste extracted text below each one
• ⏱️ Progress indicator with ETA and image count
• ⚙️ Configurable concurrency and throttling
• 🧠 Uses Tesseract.js under the hood for client-side OCR

✨ Demo

Extract Simple Image On Hover

Extract For the Whole File

📥 Installation

Install via the Extensions panel in VS Code:

1. Open the Extensions view: Ctrl+Shift+X (or Cmd+Shift+X on macOS)
2. Search for Markdown Image to Text
3. Click Install

Or install from the VS Code Marketplace.

🧑‍🏫 How to Use

▶️ 1. Hover to Extract

• In a Markdown file, hover over an image link:

  ![example](https://github.com/openmindednewby/MarkdownImageToTextVSCodeExtension/raw/HEAD/example.png)