diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index eed78576d..118efc367 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ Motions:
 - Fixed issue when creating/deleting motion comment fields in the
   settings [#3187].
 - Fixed empty motion comment field in motion update form [#3194].
+- Removed server side image to base64 transformation and
+  added local transformation [#2705]
 
 Core:
 - No reload on logoff. OpenSlides is now a full single page
diff --git a/openslides/core/static/js/core/pdf.js b/openslides/core/static/js/core/pdf.js
index 139ac8160..e518607e4 100644
--- a/openslides/core/static/js/core/pdf.js
+++ b/openslides/core/static/js/core/pdf.js
@@ -87,6 +87,25 @@ angular.module('OpenSlidesApp.core.pdf', [])
             return '{{ballot-placeholder-to-insert-functions-here}}';
         };
 
+        // returns a promise for converting an image in data URL format
+        PDFLayout.imageURLtoBase64 = function(url) {
+            var promise = new Promise(function(resolve) {
+                var img = new Image();
+                img.crossOrigin = "Anonymous";
+                img.onload = function() {
+                    var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
+                    canvas.width = img.width;
+                    canvas.height = img.height;
+                    var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
+                    ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
+                    var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
+                    resolve(dataURL);
+                };
+                img.src = url;
+            });
+            return promise;
+        };
+
         return PDFLayout;
     }
 ])
diff --git a/openslides/core/urls.py b/openslides/core/urls.py
index 356dd642c..7d5fcbe7c 100644
--- a/openslides/core/urls.py
+++ b/openslides/core/urls.py
@@ -11,10 +11,6 @@ urlpatterns = [
         views.VersionView.as_view(),
         name='core_version'),
 
-    url(r'^core/encode_media/$',
-        views.MediaEncoder.as_view(),
-        name="core_mediaencoding"),
-
     url(r'^webclient/(?P<realm>site|projector)/$',
         views.WebclientJavaScriptView.as_view(),
         name='core_webclient_javascript'),
diff --git a/openslides/core/views.py b/openslides/core/views.py
index ab0d8cffd..250d76019 100644
--- a/openslides/core/views.py
+++ b/openslides/core/views.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-import base64
 import json
-import os
 import uuid
 from collections import OrderedDict
 from operator import attrgetter
@@ -817,57 +815,3 @@ class VersionView(utils_views.APIView):
                 'description': get_plugin_description(plugin),
                 'version': get_plugin_version(plugin)})
         return result
-
-
-class MediaEncoder(utils_views.APIView):
-    """
-    MediaEncoder is a class based view to prepare encoded media for pdfMake
-    """
-    http_method_names = ['post']
-
-    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
-        """
-        Encode_image is used in the context of PDF-Generation
-        Takes an array of IMG.src - Paths
-        Retrieves the according images
-        Encodes the images to BASE64
-        Puts it into a key-value structure
-
-        {
-            "images": {
-                "media/file/ubuntu.png":"$ENCODED_IMAGE"
-            }
-        }
-
-        :param request:
-        :return: Response of the resulting dictionary
-
-        Calling e.g.
-        $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "/motions/encode_images/",
-                data: JSON.stringify(["$FILEPATH"]),
-                success: function(data){ console.log(data); },
-                dataType: 'application/json' });
-        """
-        body_unicode = request.body.decode('utf-8')
-        file_paths = json.loads(body_unicode)
-        images = {file_path: self.encode_image_from(file_path) for file_path in file_paths}
-        return Response({
-            "images": images
-        })
-
-    def encode_image_from(self, file_path):
-        """
-        Returns the BASE64 encoded version of an image-file for a given path
-        :param file_path:
-        :return:
-        """
-        path = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, 'file', os.path.basename(file_path))
-        try:
-            with open(path, "rb") as file:
-                string_representation = "data:image/{};base64,{}".format(os.path.splitext(file_path)[1][1:],
-                                                                         base64.b64encode(file.read()).decode())
-        except Exception:
-            # If any error occurs ignore it and return an empty string
-            return ""
-        else:
-            return string_representation
diff --git a/openslides/motions/static/js/motions/pdf.js b/openslides/motions/static/js/motions/pdf.js
index 1376907ff..9f7501e64 100644
--- a/openslides/motions/static/js/motions/pdf.js
+++ b/openslides/motions/static/js/motions/pdf.js
@@ -613,9 +613,11 @@ angular.module('OpenSlidesApp.motions.pdf', ['OpenSlidesApp.core.pdf'])
     'PollContentProvider',
     'PdfMakeBallotPaperProvider',
     'PdfCreate',
+    'PDFLayout',
+    '$q',
     function ($http, Config, gettextCatalog, MotionChangeRecommendation, HTMLValidizer, PdfMakeConverter,
         MotionContentProvider, MotionCatalogContentProvider, PdfMakeDocumentProvider, PollContentProvider,
-        PdfMakeBallotPaperProvider, PdfCreate) {
+        PdfMakeBallotPaperProvider, PdfCreate, PDFLayout, $q) {
         return {
             export: function (motions, params, singleMotion) {
                 if (!params) {
@@ -657,9 +659,22 @@ angular.module('OpenSlidesApp.motions.pdf', ['OpenSlidesApp.core.pdf'])
                     image_sources = image_sources.concat(tmp_image_sources);
                 });
 
-                //post-request to convert the images. Async.
-                $http.post('/core/encode_media/', JSON.stringify(image_sources)).then(function (success) {
-                    var converter = PdfMakeConverter.createInstance(success.data.images);
+                var image_map = {};
+                _.forEach(image_sources, function (image_source) {
+                    image_map[image_source] = PDFLayout.imageURLtoBase64(image_source);
+                });
+
+                var image_promises = Object.keys(image_map).map(function( key ) {
+                    return image_map[key];
+                });
+
+                //resolv promises to get base64
+                $q.all(image_promises).then(function(base64Str) {
+                    Object.keys(image_map).map(function(key, i) {
+                        image_map[key] = base64Str[i];
+                    });
+
+                    var converter = PdfMakeConverter.createInstance(image_map);
                     var motionContentProviderArray = [];
 
                     //convert all motions to motionContentProviders
@@ -671,7 +686,7 @@ angular.module('OpenSlidesApp.motions.pdf', ['OpenSlidesApp.core.pdf'])
                             params.includeReason, params.includeComments
                         ));
                     });
-                    
+
                     var documentProvider;
                     if (singleMotion) {
                         documentProvider = PdfMakeDocumentProvider.createInstance(motionContentProviderArray[0]);