Rendering markdown images hard coded as data image png base64 in notebook

DavidKxx — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:51:10 GMT

Hi all,

For training purposes, I have cloned a repo from John Snow Labs into my Databricks account and am working in the notebook that you can review at https://github.com/JohnSnowLabs/spark-nlp-workshop/blob/master/open-source-nlp/03.0.SparkNLP_Pretrained_Models.ipynb.

My little problem is with displaying images. For example, see the diagram immediately above the section heading "SpanBertCoref", that illustrates some concepts on a sentence beginning with "The sun is shining". In Databricks, the image doesn't render -- I only see the [image.src] placeholder instead.

Looking inside the Markdown code in the image cell, I see a quite a long encoding that I can't quote exactly here, because it breaks this message board interface. Here's a screenshot:

From sources like https://superuser.com/questions/1199393/is-it-possible-to-directly-embed-an-image-into-a-markdown-document, I gather that this is a known method for hard-coding images into the notebook via the base64 encoding.

Can Databricks notebooks be made to interpret and display cells like this correctly?

Thanks.

Re: Rendering markdown images hard coded as data image png base64 in notebook

NateAnth — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:32:39 GMT

Try changing the magic command for that cell from %md to %md-sandbox to see if that helps the image to render appropriately.

Re: Rendering markdown images hard coded as data image png base64 in notebook

DavidKxx — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:58:45 GMT

@NateAnth wrote:
Try changing the magic command for that cell from %md to %md-sandbox to see if that helps the image to render appropriately.

Yes, that worked nicely, thanks!

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