Many Third Party applications that support API integration want to use Base-64 encoding when transferring documents. Unfortunately, DocuWare does not decode the Base-64 before the document is stored. Therefore, it is desired to have the DocuWare API support Base-64 and decode any Base-64 encoded document that is received before it is stored.

The specific use case that the client is implementing is a SalesForce implementation. SalesForce can only send the document using Base-64 encoding. In this case the document is going through middle-ware that was built using the Oracle Service Bus. The client has decided to implement a workaround where the Oracle Service Bus converts the document to binary before sending it to DocuWare, which we support.

Note that an alternative solution is to have the DocuWare web client decode the Base-64 when the Base-64 encoded document. That will be entered as another DocuWare improvement.