# View Images from Database

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/view-images-from-database/22626>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [February 15, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/view-images-from-database/22626 "2019-02-15T21:52:39Z")\
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If you’re asking for how to do this in Perspective:  
Currently, you would probably have to do it using a webdev script, that could either return the image directly or a correctly formatted base64 string, which would then be able to be used by Perspective’s image component (I’m pretty sure). There are some ways that we could improve this experience, but the hard problem to deal with is the fact that the browser can’t directly access the database - so we need to deliver the images to it from the gateway in a format it can understand.

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