Feb 14, 2018 - It is almost impossible to get an image out of a Google Doc. You right click, hoping to see the 'Save Image' menu item, but it opens up Google's. How to Access Google Docs from an iPad. The Google Docs app is free to download and is compatible with iPad devices that are running on iOS 7 or later. Transfer Photos from an iPad to a Computer. Determine an iPad Model / Version. Google Docs will generate a unique link for you. Copy it and paste it into a new browser tab to view the published version on the web. Now you can do the Right Click Save As treatment on all embedded images to save them as independent files. Thank goodness for that, right?

Google Docs uses a 'web clipboard' approach for cut and paste that works very well so long as the paste target is another Google doc. However, I don't know how to easily copy an image from the Google web clipboard to my local clipboard so that it can be pasted into a local document.

At this point, I have discovered two kludgey ways to do this:

1. File->Download as a Microsoft Office formatted file, open the file, copy image to clipboard
2. Capture screen area to clipboard with command+control+shift+4

Both have obvious workflow or quality cons. Is there a better way?

Gaff

11 Answers

I continue to have have the same problem, my work-around:

using Chrome:

among many icons this list contains the image embedded in the google doc, go through the list with arrow down, the image will appear on the right, this image can be copied with right-click-copy

If you have many files, use File -> Download as -> Web Page (.html zipped)

Then you can unzip on the desktop, and use the files.

Otherwise, press CTRL + A (selects the entire document/page)

Open Microsoft Word (if on Windows/Mac)
Press CTRL + V (or right-click - insert) to paste the clipboard to Word

Right-click the image in Word and choose 'Save as Picture'
(requires Office 2013, if you use Powerpoint it works in 2010 as well)

Or as mentioned by warrax, you can use the Chrome Developer Tools (F12, or CTRL + J)

QuandaryQuandary

Use shift + right clickThen you can download the pictures.

Note: You have to double click on the image to select it first.

Updated:

1. Select the Sources tab
2. Expand the contents for (no domain)
3. Locate the entries in the list which begin with filesystem:https://docs.google.com.... Clicking on one will display a preview of its contents. This is the form of the url that's used to reference the images in your document.
4. When you find the one you want, right-click it and Open in new tab. In the resulting tab, you can interact with the image in the same way you'd interact with any other image in your browser.

How To Download A Picture From Google Docs To Mac

Previous answer:

Triple-click the image (or Select All) to select it and then you can right-click it and 'Copy Image'. Then you can paste it wherever you'd like.

EDITThe key is getting the browser's native right-click context menu instead of the Google Docs context menu.

jsejcksnjsejcksn

I've been searching for an easy way to do this too. Triple-click doesn't work.

The best method I've come up with is to paste any image from the Google web clipboard into a GMail message and send it to yourself. After that you can drag and drop the image from within the mail message to where ever you please.

As of Chrome Version 52.0.2743.116 m, none of the answers stated work. (I don't know if the plugin works, but I don't want to install more plugins to find out).

What I was able to do was to use the development tools (most if not all modern browsers have this now).

1. Use the select element on page, and select the image you want to copy/download. Do not have the image selected in the Google Doc, otherwise you will select an overlay/container instead of the image.
2. You should see an <image> tag with an attribute with a url. As of this writing, that attribute is named xlink:href, but may change in the future.
3. Copy link and open that link in another tab/window of the same browser. This might be obvious, but... shrug.
4. Right click on the displayed image and select Copy/Save As or whatever.

This should work for all browsers that have development tools.

If you are using Chrome you can install a Google Docs add on and then cut and paste from docs to a desktop application like word - when copying/cutting from the apps document you must use Ctrl C or X. The first time you try and do this in Chrome it should ask if you want to install the add-on.

The triple-click trick is not available any more. To select and copy to Photoshop does not work.

However, to select the image and paste it into a word processor works and from there you can copy and paste the image into Photoshop.

Note that if the image is reduced in size in your Google doc it will keep its original size as you copy paste it into the word processor, but not keep it as you copy-paste it from the word processor to Photoshop. So, you should drag it to a bigger size in the word processor before copy-pasting into Photoshop.

Jawa

I had this exact same problem - I wanted to copy an image from Google Docs into Photoshop. The two things that made this possible are:

Don't use Chrome. I opened the document in Firefox, thereby disabling some of Chrome's clever/annoying functions.

Log out of Gmail/Google. That disables all the editing functions in Google Docs/Drive, so you're back to the browser's copy/paste commands.

You can then just right-click and copy the image as you would on any other HTML web page. This process should theoretically work on any OS. I did that on a Mac.

bwDraco

How To Download A Picture From Google Docs To Computer

1. Select image in google docs
2. Press command-C (copy to local clipboard)
3. Open a local application (i.e. Word)
4. Press command-V (paste from local clipboard)

Very simple. This is what I was hoping for 2 years ago when I asked the question, and thanks to google the simple solution is now available in google docs. No idea when this improvement was made.

One trick is to Print ->Open as PDF for Preview, then double-click on the images in the preview PDF to select and copy.

Larssend

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