# Record a still image from IP Camera Viewer

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/record-a-still-image-from-ip-camera-viewer/11896>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [July 6, 2016, 5:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/record-a-still-image-from-ip-camera-viewer/11896 "2016-07-06T05:51:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![ret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/87869e/32.png) [@ret](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ret)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 5:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/record-a-still-image-from-ip-camera-viewer/11896/1 "2016-07-06T05:51:34Z")

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I am building a project (Ignition 7.7.8 ) for a tablet computer to be used for on-site maintenance. I would like to be able to take pictures of the devices being worked on so that a visual history can be stored along with the text based maintenance history.

I finally got my webcam to stream via VLC to the Ignition IP Camera Viewer after reading this post: [https://inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=9751&p=34070&hilit=webcam&sid=c35bab6a0d32be15fc4ae87ec1e7e22f#p34070](https://inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=9751&p=34070&hilit=webcam&sid=c35bab6a0d32be15fc4ae87ec1e7e22f#p34070)

Is it possible to record a still image from the video stream in the IP Camera Viewer component?

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**Author:** ![jpark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e57/32.png) [@jpark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jpark)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/record-a-still-image-from-ip-camera-viewer/11896/2 "2016-07-06T19:49:59Z")

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```auto
bufferedImage = system.print.createImage(event.source.parent.getComponent("IP Camera Viewer"))
```