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MarkdownImageToText

MarkdownImageToText

Demetrios Loizides

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Simple extension that will generate the text from an image link inside your markdown file
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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🖼️ 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 Simple Image On Hover

Extract For the Whole File 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)
    
    example
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