# How to post pdf files from postman to bubble

**URL:** <https://forum.bubble.io/t/how-to-post-pdf-files-from-postman-to-bubble/167473>\
**Category:** Database\
**Created:** [September 2, 2021, 2:06am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/how-to-post-pdf-files-from-postman-to-bubble/167473 "2021-09-02T02:06:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![abhishek.ranjan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@abhishek.ranjan](https://forum.bubble.io/u/abhishek.ranjan)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 2:06am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/how-to-post-pdf-files-from-postman-to-bubble/167473/1 "2021-09-02T02:06:13Z")

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please help me to figure out how to send pdf files from postman on bubble database,  
like when am sending name, email ,any strings i can receive them on bubble database successfully, but in case of any pdf or json response they’re showing  
{

```auto
"statusCode": 400,

"body": {

    "status": "ERROR",

    "message": "Unrecognized field: type"

}

```

}  
I have added a field resume of type file and able to upload pdfs manually at bubble, how to make it happen from postman? @blurapps

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**Author:** ![blurapps](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/blurapps/32/102380_2.png) [@blurapps](https://forum.bubble.io/u/blurapps)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 5:28am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/how-to-post-pdf-files-from-postman-to-bubble/167473/2 "2021-09-03T05:28:37Z")

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Try sending the file as a bas64 encoded string and decode it on the Bubble side.  
You can do this be setting up and API endpoint on bubble that expects this field as a ‘file’

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