Hello Omar,

I see that your post is from 2015, but I had the same problem in 2019  :)

However I found a solution and I'm sharing it for someone who is experiencing the same issue.

In Ir_http.py there is a method  called binary_content, which returns a binary field content and some other info. You can use it in any model or controller with the following import:

from odoo.addons.web.controllers.main import binary_content

* Tested on Odoo 11 Community version

​Regards,

Lyubo.

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Hi, 

this is what worked for me:

with io.BytesIO(base64.b64decode(self.binary_field_name)) as f:
    # do stuff with the contents here as if it were a file    

Best regards,

David