Send Email from Outlook to OneNote with attachments and images in body.

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Dear support team,

I cannot create a OneNote sheet from Email with images in body.

This images cannot be shown on OneNote correctly.

However, the images are shown on OneNote correctly when I use "sent to OneNote" function.

Please refer to the attachments.

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我不能使用power automate，将email正文中的图像发送到OneNote中。

图像在OneNote中不能正常显示。

不过，我用Outlook里“sent to OneNote”功能，图像可以正常显示在OneNote中。

请看附件！

Best Regards,

Hongda Zhao

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Mark Nanneman 991 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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This is probably because of the way images are often encoded in an email. A lot of times the image is stored as an invisible attachment and the image property of the email HTML refers to the attachment by an id.

Can you look at the HTML of the email you're trying to save to a One Note page?

Check the "src" property of the <img> element. Most likely it looks something like

src="cid:f31492b0-58a2-41de-8025-784928f6df80"

If you then look at the attachments on the email, you might find an attachment with an id that matches the "cid" value in the image's src property.

It would be painful, but if you really needed to save the email with the picture in the one note, you would need to get each attachment and replace the src property of each image with a base64 encoded version of the attachment content.

The format would be roughly:

<img src="data:{{content-type}};base64,{{base64-image-content}}"/>

Sort of like this screenshot where I'm getting a one drive image and putting it into an html.

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HZ-17120927-0 4 on at

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Dear @Mark Nanneman

Thank you for your reply.

However, I remain somewhat confused. I have uploaded some information from a Power Automate flow that I created. Could you please provide a transition demo for this specific case?

Please check the attachments I have uploaded two new text files and one image to the original answer.

Best regards,
Hongda Zhao

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