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How to get binary data to text?

AtliHarðarson
Level 4
Hey,

I'm using write binary to get file into blue prism, how can I write out the binary data to text data item?

I'm shooting a http message and I need to have the binary file as my body so it's

[
{
File Contents "[BinaryData here]"
}
]

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


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Atli Harðarson
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Helpful Answers

james.man
Staff
Staff
Would the LoadTextFile(filepath) function work inside a calculation stage for your use case?

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:
(Taken from the Baidu OCR skill on the Digital Exchange)

17476.png


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James Man
Professional Services
Blue Prism
Asia/Hong_Kong
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james.man
Staff
Staff
Would the LoadTextFile(filepath) function work inside a calculation stage for your use case?

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:
(Taken from the Baidu OCR skill on the Digital Exchange)

17476.png


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James Man
Professional Services
Blue Prism
Asia/Hong_Kong
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Nailed it with that code stage. Thanks a lot James and sorry for the late reply on this!

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Atli Harðarson
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