How do I display local image in markdown? - image

Does anyone know how to display a local image in markdown? I don't want to set up a webserver for that.
I try the following in markdown, but it doesn't work:
![image](files/Users/jzhang/Desktop/Isolated.png)

I suspect the path is not correct. As mentioned by user7412219 ubuntu and windows deal with path differently. Try to put the image in the same folder as your Notebook and use:
![alt text](Isolated.png "Title")
On windows the desktop should be at: C:\Users\jzhang\Desktop

The following works with a relative path to an image into a subfolder next to the document:
![image info](./pictures/image.png)

Solution for Unix-like operating system.
STEP BY STEP :
Create a directory named like Images and put all the images that will be rendered by the Markdown.
For example, put example.png into Images.
To load example.png that was located under the Images directory before.
![title](Images/example.png)
Note : Images directory must be located under the same directory of your markdown text file which has .md extension.

To add an image in markdown file the .md file and the image should be in the same directory. As in my case my .md file was in doc folder so i also moved the image into the same folder. After that write the following syntax in .md file
![alt text](filename)
like ![Car Image](car.png)
This has worked for me.

The best solution is to provide a path relative to the folder where the md document is located.
Probably a browser is in trouble when it tries to resolve the absolute path of a local file. That can be solved by accessing the file trough a webserver, but even in that situation, the image path has to be right.
Having a folder at the same level of the document, containing all the images, is the cleanest and safest solution.
It will load on GitHub, local, local webserver.
images_folder/img.jpg < works
/images_folder/img.jpg < this will work on webserver's only (please read the note!)
Using the absolute path, the image will be accessible only with a url like this: http://hostname.doesntmatter/image_folder/img.jpg

if image has bracket it won't display
![alt text](Isolated(1).png)
rename the image and remove brackets
![alt text](Isolated-1.png)
Update:
if you have spaces in the file path, you should consider renaming it too or if you use JavaScript you can encode it using
encodeURIComponent(imagePath)
Also, always try to save images and files alike with lowercase, please develop that habit, just my personal view though

Adding a local image worked for me by like so: ![alt text](file://IMG_20181123_115829.jpg)
Without the file:// prefix it did not work (Win10, Notepad++ with MarkdownViewer++ addon)
Edit: I found out it also works with html tags, and that is way better:
<img src="file://IMG_20181123_115829.jpg" alt="alt text" width="200"/>
Edit2: In Atom editor it only works without the file:// prefix. What a mess.

Depending on your tool - you can also inject HTML into markdown.
<img src="./img/Isolated.png">
This assumes your folder structure is:
├── img
└── Isolated.jpg
├── README.md

Edited:
Working for me ( for local image )
![system schema](doc/systemDiagram.jpg)
tree
├── doc
  └── jobsSystemSchema.jpg
├── README.md
markdown file README.md is at the same level as doc directory.
In your case ,your markdown file should be at the same level as the directory files.
Working for me (absolute url with raw path)
![system schema](https://server/group/jobs/raw/master/doc/systemDiagram.jpg)
NOT working for me (url with blob path)
![system schema](https://server/group/jobs/blob/master/doc/systemDiagram.jpg)

Just add the relative image file route from the markdown file
![localImage](./client/src/assets/12.png)

This worked for me in ubuntu:
![Image](/home/gps/Pictures/test.png "a title")
Markdown file is in:
/home/gps/Documents/Markdown/
Image file is in:
/home/gps/Pictures/

To my knowledge, for VSCode on Linux, the local image can be normally displayed only when you put the image into the same folder as your .md post file.
i.e. only ![](image.jpg) or ![](./image.jpg) will work.
Even the absolute path like ![](/home/bala/image.jpg)also doesn't work.

In Jupyter Notebook Markdown, you can use
<img src="RelPathofFolder/File" style="width:800px;height:300px;">

Another possibility for not displayed local image is unintentional indent of the image reference - spaces before ![alt text](file).
This makes it 'code block' instead of 'image inclusion'. Just remove the leading spaces.

You may find following the syntax similar to reference links in markdown handy, especially when you have a text with many displays of the same image:
![optional text description of the image][number]
[number]: URL
For example:
![][1]
![This is an optional description][2]
[1]: /home/jerzy/ComputerScience/Parole/Screenshot_2020-10-13_11-53-29.png
[2]: /home/jerzy/ComputerScience/Parole/Screenshot_2020-10-13_11-53-30.png

I've had problems with inserting images in R Markdown. If I do the entire URL: C:/Users/Me/Desktop/Project/images/image.png it tends to work. Otherwise, I have to put the markdown in either the same directory as the image or in an ancestor directory to it. It appears that the declared knitting directory is ignored when referencing images.

Either put the image in the same folder as the markdown file or use a relative path to the image.

just copy the image and then paste it, you will get the output
![image.png](attachment:image.png)

The basic syntax is ![Image description](Any_Image_of_your_choice.png "title"). In my case, I used image name as Any\ Image\ of\ your\ choice.png in ![Image description](Any\ Image\ of\ your\ choice.png) instead of ![Image description](Any_Image_of_your_choice.png) and it was not working. So I would say make sure to check the image directory and also image name doesn't contain spaces if so use underscore(_) instead of space.
Faced issue while using markdown in Jupyter notebook in Ubuntu 18.04.

I got a solution:
a) Example Internet:
![image info e.g. Alt](URL Internet to Images.jpg "Image Description")
b) Example local Image:
![image Info](file:///<Path to your File><image>.jpg "Image Description")
![image Info](file:///C:/Users/<name>/Pictures/<image>.jpg "Image Description")
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I'm in my master thesis and I have to extract images from about 500 pdf files, some people recommended hexapdf to me for this. I was able to install Ruby and hexapdf and now I'm kinda stuck getting the images out of the pdf's since I don't have a coding background. Any tips?
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I would check that you are following help provided by hexapdf documentation and that the path to your PDF is correct. If the file with your code and the PDF are in the same directory and you are running your code from that file, then you would do something like:
require 'hexapdf'
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How to ensure that image files from Sphinx Documentation are copied "Automatically" in LaTeX pdf

In my Sphinx documentation project, I am using images like this:
.. image:: /_static/carousel_filling.png
:width: 300px
:height: 450px
:scale: 100 %
:alt: Image here
:align: right
In the Sphinx HTML docs generated, the images are perfectly displayed in the html pages. However, when I generate pdf documents using make latexpdf, I am coming up with the following error:
'LaTeX Warning: File `{carousel_filling}.png' not found on input line ...'
I tried to find documentation related to outputting images however I came up only with this:
Excertps from:
latex_additional_files A list of file names, relative to the
configuration directory, to copy to the build directory when building
LaTeX output. This is useful to copy files that Sphinx doesn’t copy
automatically, e.g. if they are referenced in custom LaTeX added in
latex_elements. Image files that are referenced in source files (e.g.
via .. image::) are copied automatically.
So as per this, the image files should get automatically added to the output pdf file. But this is not happening. In the pdf file where the image should be there only a blank rectangle can be seen.
Interestingly, I can see that the image file has been copied to the folder _build/latex, so it means that pdflatex is able to access the image file!!
Question
How do I correctly output the images included in my Sphinx documentation in generated pdf file?
Edit 1:
In the terminal I can see the following warning:
LaTeX Warning: File `{carousel_filling}.png' not found on input line 931.
! Package pdftex.def Error: File `"""{carousel_filling}".png' not found: using dra
ft setting.
See the pdftex.def package documentation for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...
l.931 ...t=450\sphinxpxdimen]{{carousel_filling}.png}
?
[21]
Edit 2:
In place of the image (where the rectangle outline has been output in pdf file) I can see this:
"""{carousel_filling}".png
Don't place your images under _static. It is a special-purpose folder, not for images. E.g. create img/ at the level of your rst files, move image there, and .. image:: img/my-image.png.

How to do a link to a file in rst with sphinx?

I am writing a documentation and I would like to include links to pdf files or zip archives. How can I achieve that using rst language and sphinx ?
If I do that
here is a pdf file : `pdf <doc/mypdf.pdf>`_
It does not work because, during the compilation sphinx do not copy the contains of the doc directory (I use the makefile generated by sphinx-quickstart).
On the contrary, using the image directive :
.. image:: img/plop.png
sphinx does copy the plop.png image in build directory. How can I obtain the same behavior for pdf or zip archive ?
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The image directive also works for PDF files.
.. image:: doc/mypdf.pdf

How to read images from folders in matlab

I have six folders like this >> Images
and each folder contains some images. I know how to read images in matlab BUT my question is how I can traverse through these folders and read images in abc.m file (this file is shown in this image)
So basically you want to read images in different folders without putting all of the images into one folder and using imread()? Because you could just copy all of the images (and name them in a way that lets you know which folder they came from) into a your MATLAB working directory and then load them that way.
Use the cd command to change directories (like in *nix) and then load/read the images as you traverse through each folder. You might need absolute path names.
The easiest way is certainly a right clic on the forlder in matlab and "Add to Path" >> "Selected Folders and Subfolders"
Then you can just get images with imread without specifying the path.
if you know the path to the image containing directory, you can use dir on it to list all the files (and directories) in it. Filter the files with the image extension you want and voila, you have an array with all the images in the directory you specified:
dirname = 'images';
ext = '.jpg';
sDir= dir( fullfile(dirname ,['*' ext]) );;
sDir([sDir.isdir])=[]; % remove directories
% following is obsolete because wildcarded dir ^^
b=arrayfun(#(x) strcmpi(x.name(end-length(ext)+1:end),ext),sDir); % filter on extension
sFiles = sDir(b);
You probably want to prefix the name of each file with the directory before using:
sFileName(ii) = fullfile(dirname, sFiles(ii));
You can process this resulting files as you want. Loading all the files for example:
for ii=1:numel(sFiles)
data{i}=imread(sFiles(ii).name)
end
If you also want to recurse the subdirectories, I suggest you take a look at:
How to get all files under a specific directory in MATLAB?
or other solutions on the FEX:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/8682-dirr-find-files-recursively-filtering-name-date-or-bytes
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/15505-recursive-dir
EDIT: added Amro's suggestion of wildcarding the dir call

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