convert base64 string to file name for images

[jacky-ew]

Hi, is there anyway i get a file.jpg/file.png instead of base64 string?

[Cerovec]

Hi @jacky-ew,

Thanks for the idea. Can you suggest how would the API look like?

Thanks,
Jurica.

[jacky-ew]

my suggestion will be

var blinkIdInstance = new BlinkIDReactNative.BlinkIdCombinedRecognizer();
blinkIdInstance.returnFullDocumentImage = true;
blinkIdInstance.returnFaceImage = true;
**blinkIdInstance.encodedImage="file"/"base64"

also i found this http://blinkid.github.io/blinkid-ios/Classes/MBImageReturnProcessorResult.html#/c:objc(cs)MBImageReturnProcessorResult(py)encodedImage

so current version of blinkId has no proper method / key to toggle between file and base64 string for the images?

[Cerovec]

Hi @jacky-ew,

I think I don't have a clear understanding of what do you actually need. Would you like to specify which image to process, by specifying the file name for that image? Or would you rather get the image, which is an output of the scanning process (such as an image of the full document) as a file rather than a base64 string?

What is your underlying use case for this?

Thanks,
Jurica.

[jacky-ew]

Hi Jurica, i wish to have the output of the scanning process, image of the full document, to be a file.
However will be better if we can state the format ourselves, which mean we can toggle the output of scanning to be either a file (.png) or base64 string

[Cerovec]

Thanks @jacky-ew.

And what's the underlying use case behind this?

Our assumption when we decided to return base64 images was that in the large majority of cases these images will be shown to the user in the app, or transmitted over the network. Do you have something else in mind when you think about using files directly?

Thanks,
Jurica.