# Age old topic but not finding any solutions - Image to Base64 in DnD builder
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/age-old-topic-but-not-finding-any-solutions-image-to-base64-in-dnd-builder/3294858
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** help
**Created:** [October 23, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/age-old-topic-but-not-finding-any-solutions-image-to-base64-in-dnd-builder/3294858 "2024-10-23T15:30:23Z")
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### Author:  [@tim.casson.smithpc](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tim.casson.smithpc)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/age-old-topic-but-not-finding-any-solutions-image-to-base64-in-dnd-builder/3294858/1 "2024-10-23T15:30:23Z")
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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### Author:  [@matt\_conroy](https://community.thunkable.com/u/matt_conroy)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2024, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/age-old-topic-but-not-finding-any-solutions-image-to-base64-in-dnd-builder/3294858/2 "2024-10-24T13:18:20Z")
Hi @tim.casson.smithpc, the conversion method is discussed in this topic:
> [@WEB API Firebase Storage It does not upload the file to the server](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-api-firebase-storage-it-does-not-upload-the-file-to-the-server/2369895/4):
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> Hello @whiterabbitstudio202 I’ve already created an app that uses the API Block to send an image file. I used Web Viewer and HTML code to convert the image file to base64 and then send it through the API. This is the code for HTML: \ \ \ \ \ \ \Convert local file to Base64\ \