diff --git a/packages/app-desktop/gui/NoteEditor/utils/resourceHandling.ts b/packages/app-desktop/gui/NoteEditor/utils/resourceHandling.ts
index 4f654de4995..51c5a868e26 100644
--- a/packages/app-desktop/gui/NoteEditor/utils/resourceHandling.ts
+++ b/packages/app-desktop/gui/NoteEditor/utils/resourceHandling.ts
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ export async function processPastedHtml(html: string) {
 						const createdResource = await shim.createResourceFromPath(imageFilePath);
 						mappedResources[imageSrc] = `file://${encodeURI(Resource.fullPath(createdResource))}`;
 					}
+				} else if (imageSrc.startsWith('data:')) { // Data URIs
+					mappedResources[imageSrc] = imageSrc;
 				} else {
 					const filePath = `${Setting.value('tempDir')}/${md5(Date.now() + Math.random())}`;
 					await shim.fetchBlob(imageSrc, { path: filePath });