(Auto) Remove Images from formatted note

DEVONthink
1

I love the formatted note which is captured by DTPro

  • how to remove images after the notes are captured ,besides manually deletion
  • capture as formatted note but without images
2

Neither of these of possible as this time.
May I ask why you’d want these options?

3

Thank you for quick response.

I love how a formatted note looks, readability is awesome with it .

The idea to remove the images from the note was to reduce the note size which often is >500 KB due to 3-4 images generally on a good article.

4

You’re welcome and that is true. A formatted note can quickly become large with the embedded image data.

Development would have to assess the request to capture a formatted note without images.

Pick a file, duplicate it, and run this code in Script Editor…

tell application id "DNtp"
	repeat with thisRecord in (selected records)
		do shell script "sed -i '' 's_<img .*\\\">__g' " & quoted form of (path of thisRecord as string)
	end repeat
end tell

Does that work as expected?

5

This works absolutely fine. Thank you !!

This would be great too

6

You’re welcome.

Here’s a slightly error-trapped version…

tell application id "DNtp"
	repeat with thisRecord in (selected records)
		if (type of thisRecord) is formatted note then
			do shell script "sed -i '' 's_<img .*\\\">__g' " & quoted form of (path of thisRecord as string)
			update thumbnail of thisRecord
		end if
	end repeat
end tell
7

A slightly safer RE would be
<img[^>]+>
Using a non-greedy expression that doesn’t gobble up more than absolutely necessary.
Imagine you had a img and an a element in the same line/paragraph – I think your expression would eat the a element, too.

8

Indeed.
's_<img[^>]*>__g' works.