diff --git a/apps/vectorcraft-web/src/web.rs b/apps/vectorcraft-web/src/web.rs
index 6e539a1b..50028187 100644
--- a/apps/vectorcraft-web/src/web.rs
+++ b/apps/vectorcraft-web/src/web.rs
@@ -205,7 +205,8 @@ fn track_paste(pasted: &Rc<RefCell<Pasted>>) {
         let Some(data) = e.clipboard_data() else { return };
         let Some(files) = data.files().filter(|f| f.length() > 0) else { return };
         // Text is egui's, but for the address a browser's Copy Image puts next to the picture.
-        if data.get_data("text").is_ok_and(|t| !t.is_empty() && !is_address(&t)) {
+        // Blank text is not a caption. A picture pasted with it is still the picture.
+        if data.get_data("text").is_ok_and(|t| !t.trim().is_empty() && !is_address(&t)) {
             return;
         }
         e.prevent_default();
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/sysclip.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/sysclip.rs
index 27a8735d..a2eb8a91 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/sysclip.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/sysclip.rs
@@ -92,7 +92,9 @@ impl VectorcraftApp {
                 let Some(f) = cb.read(&PASTE_ORDER) else { return Ok(()) };
                 // Text that only names a picture (its address, or its image markup) goes with a
                 // browser's copied picture: the picture.
-                let f = if f.mime == TEXT && names_a_picture(&String::from_utf8_lossy(&f.data)) { cb.read(&[BITMAP]).unwrap_or(f) } else { f };
+                let text = String::from_utf8_lossy(&f.data);
+                // Blank text is what some hosts put beside a copied picture. It is not the paste.
+                let f = if f.mime == TEXT && (text.trim().is_empty() || names_a_picture(&text)) { cb.read(&[BITMAP]).unwrap_or(f) } else { f };
                 import_command(&f, center)
             }
             // Text only: SVG markup is art, other text is left alone.
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/tests_sysclip.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/tests_sysclip.rs
index fe053e6b..8ffc8a88 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/tests_sysclip.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/tests_sysclip.rs
@@ -159,7 +159,10 @@ fn text_from_another_app_pastes_as_point_text_and_svg_text_as_art() {
     run(&mut app, "edit.paste", json!({}));
     assert_eq!(pasted(&app).len(), 2);
     assert!(pasted(&app).iter().all(|n| matches!(n.kind, NodeKind::Path { .. })));
-    // Text that can't be pasted pastes nothing (not the stale internal clipboard).
+    // Blank text beside a picture is the picture. Text alone that can't be pasted adds nothing.
+    copy_elsewhere(&board, vec![(TEXT, b"  \r\n".to_vec()), (PNG, blue_png())]);
+    run(&mut app, "edit.paste", json!({}));
+    assert!(matches!(pasted(&app)[0].kind, NodeKind::Image(_)), "blank text yields the picture");
     let before = count(&app);
     copy_elsewhere(&board, vec![(TEXT, b"  \r\n".to_vec())]);
     assert!(app.run("edit.paste", json!({})).is_err());