How to add dynamic image in jasper report using jasper studio Database is postgresql image is stored in bytea format how to display that image in jasper report. i used the following query to retrieve image from db in text format select encode(image,'escape') as img,id from entity_image where id = 100 jasper source code is <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- Created with Jaspersoft Studio version 6.5.1.final using JasperReports Library version 6.5.1 --> <jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="image" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth="555" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20" uuid="c591470d-2796-470b-a5ab-01b50ddf30b9"> <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.data.sql.tables" value=""/> <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.data.defaultdataadapter" value="TST"/> <queryString language="SQL"> <![CDATA[select encode(image,'escape') as image from entity_image where id = 100]]> </queryString> <field name="image" class="java.lang.String"> <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.field.label" value="image"/> </field> <background> <band splitType="Stretch"/> </background> <title> <band height="79" splitType="Stretch"/> </title> <detail> <band height="125" splitType="Stretch"> <image isUsingCache="true"> <reportElement x="240" y="21" width="71" height="51" uuid="65f086cd-ae8e-46c5-ba66-85f3a9b0bc28"/> <imageExpression><![CDATA[new java.io.ByteArrayInputStream(org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64.decodeBase64($F{image}.getBytes())) ]]></imageExpression> </image> </band> </detail> </jasperReport> it shows net.sf.jasperreports.engine.jrexception: Image read failed . How to solve this?? is there any other method?