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me24hour
me24hour

Reputation: 719

What is the best way to convert a pdf file into base64Binary?

Using python, I want to convert a pdf file into base64Binary

My logic(not python) is reading the contents of the file into a byte array and then use something like Convert.ToBase64String() method to get the Base64 string:

byte[] pdfBytes = File.ReadAllBytes(pdfPath);
string pdfBase64 = Convert.ToBase64String(pdfBytes);

Please let me know what is the right approach to convert a pdf file into base64Binary in python

Upvotes: 18

Views: 54829

Answers (2)

Mohd Shoaib
Mohd Shoaib

Reputation: 43

Here is my solution:

import base64
from base64 import b64decode, b64encode

def pdf_to_base64(file):
    file_bytes = base64.b64encode(file.read())
    base_64 = file_bytes.decode("ascii")
    return base_64

Upvotes: 0

Abdallah Alsamman
Abdallah Alsamman

Reputation: 1672

its easy as this

import base64

with open("book.pdf", "rb") as pdf_file:
    encoded_string = base64.b64encode(pdf_file.read())

source: Encoding an image file with base64

Upvotes: 53

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