# Converting varbinary to base64 for perspective image component

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/converting-varbinary-to-base64-for-perspective-image-component/81202>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective, scripting\
**Created:** [October 30, 2023, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/converting-varbinary-to-base64-for-perspective-image-component/81202 "2023-10-30T21:24:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/converting-varbinary-to-base64-for-perspective-image-component/81202/1 "2023-10-30T21:24:26Z")

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I've followed some other forum posts for converting a png stored as a varbinary in a sql server database to a base64 string that can be used by the image component, but the component won't read the image. I believe it has something to do with my script converting the value from a scalar back to an array after my transform. Any ideas why "value" in the transform is not returning the same scalar value from the named query? Thanks!

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