Age old topic but not finding any solutions - Image to Base64 in DnD builder

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Hi,

I’ll go straight to the point here, is there really no URL or image to base64 conversion method in the DnD builder? I am in need of this for an app I am building as the image will be parsed to Google Vision API which from my understanding needs the image to be in this format.

I am getting the image from either a camera photo using the camera component or the file picker to select an image from the device. I noticed that the file picker just stores a URL/URI of the location of the image.

Any suggestions (I have looked around for Web APIs that could do this preferable for free with no luck) please?

Thank you

Tim

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Hi @tim.casson.smithpc, the conversion method is discussed in this topic:

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Thanks @matt_conroy for this - not being that familiar with this code , how would I pass an image directly from a camera to it without having to prompt the user to do this?