Gitbook Editor: Adding support to "paste" image directly in the editor

[zhenglaizhang]

The Gitbook is very powerful, and I am now using it to replace my OneNote to take notes. Everything is great, except that the image cannot be directly pasted into the editor. The image insertion functionality is still great, but not convenient.

It sounds a bit crazy, just want to check if it is possible to support pasting image directly in the editor in the future?

If it's impossible or difficult, could you guys help give a simple explanation, if I have time, I would try to see if I could investigate or code with that.

What I can propose is that paste may be emulated as below steps:

• extract the image content from clipboard and save that to the appropriate location in the book library, the image name may be auto-generated
• add the image markdown directive to the editor content with the auto-generated path
• The rename could be applied to both the image file path and the path value in the markdown directive.

[abeolson]

I'll second this feature request. It's a killer feature for technical writing.

Currently there are very few editors with this feature. Looking at how some implement it may be the best way to get started.

[zhenglaizhang]

Great resources, thank you @abeolson ! I will take some time to investigate and try to code for that.

Also, I will be always keeping the thread updated. If anybody else seeing this has already started the work, please kindly let me know -:)

[121213tjfgalfjaf]

nice work

[bradennapier]

I would strongly support this feature. When writing guides that require screenshots, it is a huge pain to save the screenshot via some sort of image editor just to upload it. When you can simply make a quick screenshot then go to the editor and paste it, you save a HUGE amount of time.

This feature alone makes DokuWiki still the documentation of choice for me personally. GitBook definitely would benefit greatly from having this feature!

[tyomo4ka]

+1

[Chaklader]

+1 for the feature

[yishenggudou]

+1 for the feature

[yhcharles]

I think there are some plugins implemented for Atom and VSCode:
https://atom.io/packages/markdown-image-helper
https://atom.io/packages/markdown-img-paste
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mushan.vscode-paste-image

hope this will help to bing the feature to Gitbook Editor

[crifan]

+1

strongly hope added this feature

[kerphi]

+1 very useful feature

[AaronO]

This is one of the many improvements implemented in the upcoming release (https://beta.gitbook.com). We're working hard on preparing the migration and will share more about the release soon !

[kerphi]

@AaronO that is a great news ! do you have any idea when this beta will be released?

[iainelder]

Any news on this feature?

We started using Gitbook for technical documentation in my organization.

I'm documenting a process that involves a lot of pointing and clicking in menus. I need to include a lot of screenshots to document each step of the process.

I'm finding the need to save an image somewhere before including it in the online document is slowing down my workflow here.

Ideally I'd just copy a part of the screen using screen capture and paste it into the editor.