Convert HTML img tags to Markdown

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What I’m trying to do

I have a lot of documents that I imported from Joplin that have embedded HTML for images that were downloaded via web clipper with the document. For example:

<img width="314" height="263" src="../_resources/11.01B-Finder_chaos_v2--1_vfx-da_49e7dbbcaf8046338.png" class="jop-noMdConv">

I would like to clean these up so that they are just standard Obsidian Flavored Markdown:

![[11.01B-Finder_chaos_v2--1_vfx-da_49e7dbbcaf8046338.png|314x263]]

Some of the documents also have internal header references like:

[Press & news updates](#news)

And

[](#)[](#)**KLAUS SCHULZE forum topics**

That I’d like to get cleaned up.

Things I have tried

I’ve searched / read through the Obsidian documentation. I’ve done normal web searches, and I’ve searched the forums…and haven’t come up with a solution that really fits my case.

Is there a command that I can call that will allow me to convert and/or cleanup these kinds of issues as I find them? Or is there a community plugin that can accomplish this?

I have over 1100 documents, and 1500 images from my import. I am trying to get all of this cleaned up so I can determine which images are really not linked to anything, and I can go ahead and cleaned / reformat documents as I go through them.

– George

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Thanks for this suggestion – I was hoping to be a bit more programmatic about this without having to write my own sed/awk script (yes, I am comfortable enough with regex’s) to do this… The part that I wanted to avoid was trying to script a parser for the tags that would handle the width and height parameters – which aren’t always present.

But, I think the idea of starting with a grep over the files to find all the tags is a good starting point. Then I can determine how many have width/height parameters, and how many don’t.

And thanks for mentioning “Clear Unused Images” - that will definitely help witth cleaning.