Is it possible to PASTE image into Jupyter Notebook?

Question

It is possible to include images in Jupyter notebook with various markup.

But is it possible to AUTOMATE this? I.e. I have image in clipboard, then I just press Ctrl-V and Jupyter server automatically takes this image, creates file in appropriate place and inserts markup for it.

I saw such things in Stackoverflow and JIRA.

score 16 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 04 '18 at 01:29

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Juypter Notebook now supports this natively as of version 5.0.0. You should be able to upgrade Jupyter using pip:

pip install notebook --upgrade

or conda:

conda upgrade notebook

then you can simply drag-and-drop images into cells or paste them from your clipboard.

answered Feb 04 '18 at 01:29

lextoumbourou

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Images pasted directly in a markdown cell are ignored if you try to File->Save and export notebook as..->Markdown.
The pasted images are base64 encoded in the .ipynb file, & referred to in the .md file as `![image.png](attachment:5e81266f-de1a-4646-a45b-ce7efb2b90a8.png)`. Of course, there is no such file by the name `5e81266f-de1a-4646-a45b-ce7efb2b90a8.png` in the zip file for the .md, so one is stuck.
You need the image files if you are using mkdocs (or similar tool).
Does anyone know of a way to extract these copy-pasted images as files?
Thanks in advance!
– Topchi May 04 '22 at 01:22

score 16 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 19 '20 at 23:58

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Yes.

Click the preferred cell that you want to paste the image into
Enter markdown mode by pressing Esc then M
Paste using Ctrl + V

Note: As @lextoumbourou suggested, ensure your notebook is up to date. I am using version 7.13.0. I checked version using conda list ipython

answered Jun 19 '20 at 23:58

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works perfectly thanks, surprisingly: local laptop clipboard (w/ snipping-tool on a win10) transferred to a remote Ubuntu 20.x's jupyter notebook markdown cell (on chromium) via teamviewer w/o issue, +1 & bookmarked TQ. – hello_there_andy Oct 06 '21 at 15:47
**CAREFUL**: if you try and paste two different images in the same markdown cell the second pasted image will delete the first one, in my case: naïvely I just pasted one image > ran the markdown cell > copied another > ran the markdown cell > the second image duplicated (first one dissapeared) – hello_there_andy Oct 06 '21 at 16:03

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 25 '19 at 08:44

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Its simple, navigate to Markdown and simply drag and drop your image and hit enter

answered Aug 25 '19 at 08:44

valkyrie55

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This approach works – WestCoastProjects Sep 11 '22 at 01:56

score 3 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 10 '20 at 08:08

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Yes, you can copy paste images in jupyter notebook.

Just go in notebook cell and select heading and paste the image.

That's it: now run the cell, the image will appear there.

edited Jun 10 '20 at 08:08

Alpi Murányi

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answered Jun 09 '20 at 17:32

Raj

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just wondered to which path the image file is uploaded. It turns out it is stored base64 encoded in the cell: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71703463/where-are-copy-pasted-images-stored-in-jupyter-notebook – Thomas W. Nov 08 '22 at 15:55

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 08 '20 at 16:59

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Here's how I did it using jupyter-notebook : 6.0.2

copy the image and paste directly into jupyter notebook as

''' ! [image.png] (attachment:image.png) '''

answered Apr 08 '20 at 16:59

AVC

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can you explain further? you have typed commands, what does that have to do with drag and drop? – WestCoastProjects Sep 11 '22 at 01:56

Is it possible to PASTE image into Jupyter Notebook?

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