https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/How-to-get-binary-data-to-text/m-p/64699#M17432 Would the LoadTextFile(filepath) function work inside a calculation stage for your use case?<BR /><BR />If your file is stored as a Binary Data Type and you need to BASE64 encode it to submet to an API, you can create a code stage within an object to do this for you:<BR />(Taken from the Baidu OCR skill on the Digital Exchange)<BR /><BR /> <DIV class="media" style="overflow: hidden; zoom: 1;"><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="17476.png"><img src="https://community.blueprism.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/17633iEE5B3E55DEEDDFCC/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="17476.png" alt="17476.png" /></span></DIV><BR /><BR />------------------------------<BR />James Man<BR />Professional Services<BR />Blue Prism<BR />Asia/Hong_Kong<BR />------------------------------<BR /> Mon, 18 May 2020 09:40:00 GMT james.man 2020-05-18T09:40:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/How-to-get-binary-data-to-text/m-p/64698#M17431 <DIV style="text-align: justify;">Hey, <BR /><BR />I'm using write binary to get file into blue prism, how can I write out the binary data to text data item?<BR /><BR />I'm shooting a http message and I need to have the binary file as my body so it's<BR /><BR />[<BR />{<BR />File Contents "[BinaryData here]"<BR />}<BR />]<BR /><BR />I need it as text, any ideas? Even getting it to clipboard could help me but I haven't been able to solve that either</DIV><BR /><BR />------------------------------<BR />Atli Harðarson<BR />------------------------------<BR /> Sun, 17 May 2020 19:32:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/How-to-get-binary-data-to-text/m-p/64698#M17431 AtliHarðarson 2020-05-17T19:32:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/How-to-get-binary-data-to-text/m-p/64699#M17432 Would the LoadTextFile(filepath) function work inside a calculation stage for your use case?<BR /><BR />If your file is stored as a Binary Data Type and you need to BASE64 encode it to submet to an API, you can create a code stage within an object to do this for you:<BR />(Taken from the Baidu OCR skill on the Digital Exchange)<BR /><BR /> <DIV class="media" style="overflow: hidden; zoom: 1;"><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="17476.png"><img src="https://community.blueprism.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/17633iEE5B3E55DEEDDFCC/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="17476.png" alt="17476.png" /></span></DIV><BR /><BR />------------------------------<BR />James Man<BR />Professional Services<BR />Blue Prism<BR />Asia/Hong_Kong<BR />------------------------------<BR /> Mon, 18 May 2020 09:40:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/How-to-get-binary-data-to-text/m-p/64699#M17432 james.man 2020-05-18T09:40:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/How-to-get-binary-data-to-text/m-p/64700#M17433 Nailed it with that code stage. Thanks a lot James and sorry for the late reply on this!<BR /><BR />------------------------------<BR />Atli Harðarson<BR />------------------------------<BR /> Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:37:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/How-to-get-binary-data-to-text/m-p/64700#M17433 AtliHarðarson 2020-11-10T15:37:00Z