Base64 to Image
Decode Base64 back into an image — preview and download the file.
How to use Base64 to Image
- Paste the Base64 string — the data: prefix is optional.
- Preview the decoded image — instant verification it's the right picture.
- Download the file — as its native format (PNG/JPG/etc.).
- If it won't decode: check for truncation, stray whitespace or double encoding — the usual suspects.
What is Base64 to Image?
A Base64 to image converter decodes image-as-text back into a viewable, downloadable picture: paste a data URI (or bare Base64 block) and get the image it encodes. It's the reading direction of image inlining — turning the opaque character wall back into pixels.
Encoded images arrive from everywhere: API responses and webhooks that deliver pictures as JSON strings, database fields storing images as text, data URIs found in HTML/CSS you're inspecting, and debugging sessions where the question is simply "what image IS this string?"
About the Base64 to Image
Paste the Base64 — with or without the data:image/…;base64, prefix — preview the decoded image, and download it as a file.
The decode jobs: extracting images from API/webhook payloads during integration work (the endpoint returns a Base64 avatar — decode to verify it's the right picture), recovering images stored as text in databases and exports, inspecting data URIs in page sources and stylesheets, converting signature-pad and canvas outputs (which produce data URIs natively) into files, and the debugging classic — confirming an encoded blob is a valid image at all before hunting elsewhere for the bug.
Failure modes when nothing renders: truncated pastes (Base64 blocks are long — partial copies decode to broken files), whitespace/line-break contamination from logs (strip it), double-encoded strings (decode twice), and blobs that were never images. The tool's error beats silent garbage. Decoding runs in your browser; encoded secrets stay yours.