Obsidian Image to text

Recognize Text on images in your notes. Select the image and run the command. The recognized text will be appended to your image or will replace your image - depending on the command

Commands

Command	Description
Replace selection	Replace your image with the recognized text. Recognize text based on the language defined in settings
Replace selection - custom language	Replace your image with the recognized text. Recognize text based on custom selection
Append selection	Append the recognized text to your image. Recognize text based on language defined in settings
Append selection - custom language	Append the recognized text to your image. Recognize text based on custom selection
Insert as alt text	Insert the recognized text as alt text to your image. Recognize text based on language defined in settings. Note: This will overwrite any existing alt text
Insert as alt text - custom language	Insert the recognized text as alt text to your image. Recognize text based on custom selection. Note: This will overwrite any existing alt text

Example

Supported Image Types

• .jpg
• .jpeg
• .png
• .gif
• .bmp
• .pbm
• .webp

Supported Markup

Format	Example	Description
Obsidian Image	![[example.png]]	Obsidian image tag
Obsidian Image including size	![[example.png|300]]	Obsidian image tag including size. Size is preserved when using "Insert as alt text"
Markdown Image		Markdown image tag
URL	https://www.example.com/example.png	URL to an image
img Tag	<img src="https://www.example.com/example.png" />	Img tag with a valid src attribute

Installation

Community Plugin

• Follow this link Obsidian Plugin
• Or open Obsidian Settings, go to Community Plugins, browse "Image to Text OCR" click install and activate.

Manually installing the plugin

• Go to the latest Releases
• Download main.js, manifest.json
• save into your vault VaultFolder/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-image-to-text-ocr/

Settings

Name	Description
Content language	Select language to recognize. Default is Englisch. If images contain special characters, changing the language may perform better results
Enable debug logging	If enabled, more will be logged in the console.

Ressources

This plugin uses tesseract.js to recognize text.

Contribution

• Feel free to open an issue if you miss something
• Feel free to open a Pull request to implement a feature
  • Please extend tests if you add logic