# Image and document upload/download in Elasticsearch

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/image-and-document-upload-download-in-elasticsearch/110222
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 4, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/image-and-document-upload-download-in-elasticsearch/110222 "2017-12-04T23:45:50Z")
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### Author: ![bradley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@bradley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bradley)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/image-and-document-upload-download-in-elasticsearch/110222/2 "2017-12-05T00:22:45Z")

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I've probably found my answer here: [Storing images in an index](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-images-in-an-index/44409)

It looks like it's possible, but inefficient.

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