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I recently had a project where I needed to convert my image to base64. With JavaScript it\u2019s relatively easy and since I was new to Swift I had no idea how to do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below, I obtain my image as a UIImage<\/code>, then convert it into NSData, and then into base64.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

let image = ...UIImage(CGImage: cgImageRef!, scale: 1.0, orientation: UIImageOrientation.Right)...\n\n\/\/ Turn UIImage into Base64\nlet imageNSData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, 0.05)\nlet base64String = imageNSData!.base64EncodedStringWithOptions(.Encoding64CharacterLineLength)\n\nprint(\"Base64?\", base64String)<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
You can use http:\/\/codebeautify.org\/base64-to-image-converter<\/a> to test the base64 image.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I recently had a project where I needed to convert my image to base64. With JavaScript it\u2019s relatively easy and since I was new to Swift I had no idea how to do this. Below, I obtain my image as a UIImage, then convert it into NSData, and then into base64. 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