Paste Enhancer
🚀 Paste Enhancer is a smart paste extension for VS Code.
It gives you the power to choose how you want to paste content into your editor — whether it's plain text, code extracted from an image, or handling images.
✨ Features
✅ Paste as Text
Pastes plain text directly from your clipboard into your editor.
(For example, copied text from browser, documents, etc.)
✅ Paste as Code (from image OCR)
Automatically extract text or code from an image in your clipboard (using Tesseract OCR) and insert it at your cursor position.
✅ Paste as Image
(Informs you about pasting images — since VS Code does not directly embed image data, this guides you to save and reference.)
🚀 How to Use
🔥 Activate the extension
Open the Command Palette:
Ctrl + Shift + P (Windows/Linux)Cmd + Shift + P (Mac)
Type: 'Enhanced Paste'
and select it.
You'll see a menu:
Choose paste option : Paste as Text
Paste as Code (from image OCR)
Paste as Image
✍️ Examples
Paste as Text:
Quickly insert clipboard text wherever your cursor is.
Paste as Code (from image OCR):
Have a code snippet in an image (screenshot, PDF snippet, etc.)?
Copy that image, run Enhanced Paste, and it will automatically extract the text/code and paste it into your editor.
Paste as Image:
(For now, VS Code does not embed images. This shows info on how to manually handle images.)
⚙️ Requirements
To use Paste as Code (from image OCR):
- Clipboard must have an image.
- Your system needs:
- Windows: PowerShell available (default on Windows 10/11).
- Mac:
pngpaste installed (brew install pngpaste).
- Linux:
xclip installed (sudo apt install xclip).
🛠 Installation
- Search for Paste Enhancer in the VS Code Extensions Marketplace and install it.
Or install from VSIX file:
code --install-extension paste-enhancer-<version>.vsix
💡 Future ideas
✅ Add a keyboard shortcut for one-click enhanced paste.
✅ Insert image markdown reference automatically.
🚀 Enjoy!
If you like this extension, leave a ⭐ on the Visual Studio Marketplace page.
🛠 Developed by Kartik Guleria
🎯 Powered by tesseract.js for OCR.
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