Enable paste for reverse image search

ssg

Let users paste the image itself by pressing Ctrl+V/Cmd+V here:

{kagi image search}

Users don't really save an image to disk when they just want to search for something on their screen. They just capture it to the clipboard. Such a feature would prevent users from going through the hassle of pasting the image to some other editor, saving it to disk, and try to find it on the disk again when uploading it. Google Image Search already supports this.

It would be useful on mobile too as copying screenshots to clipboard is also common there.

z64

This seems to be a bug; this works on the homepage, but not when /images is open, by my testing. Does it work on the homepage for you?

ssg

z64 Yes, it works on the homepage (MS Edge on Windows 11), but I have to click on "Search options", then "Images", then lens icon, then paste. It's a bit tedious. It doesn't work under /images.

Thibaultmol

huh yeah, I can't actually do this either. neither on homepage or /images
(firefox)

RoxyRoxyRoxy

Testing on Orion, on the homepage I can paste an image copied (from Finder), but everywhere else I just get the filename pasted in.

papetoast

Current behaviour is that pasting an image does nothing, with focus on the box or not. Other search engines like Google and Yandex have this functionality.