diff --git a/src/bundle/digitalResource/Controller/format.php b/src/bundle/digitalResource/Controller/format.php
index bce57b1b086b55a7dc70131097fd9b00e90fa61d..5760514069e10e3f698ce91b975d10b519baef4e 100755
--- a/src/bundle/digitalResource/Controller/format.php
+++ b/src/bundle/digitalResource/Controller/format.php
@@ -183,13 +183,20 @@ class format
 
     /**
      * Get all information about the content file (puid, md5/sha256/sha512 hash)
-     * @param string $contents The content file
      *
      * @return digitalResource/fileInformation The file information object
      */
-    public function getFileInformation($contents)
+    public function getFileInformation($contents, $extension)
     {
-        $contents = base64_decode($contents);
+        if (is_resource($contents)) {
+            $contents = base64_decode(stream_get_contents($contents));
+        } elseif (filter_var($contents, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL)) {
+            $contents = stream_get_contents($contents);
+        } elseif (preg_match('%^[a-zA-Z0-9\\\\/+]*={0,2}$%', $contents)) {
+            $contents = base64_decode($contents);
+        } elseif (is_file($contents)) {
+            $contents = file_get_contents($contents);
+        }
 
         $filename = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'digitalResource.format.');
         file_put_contents($filename, $contents);
diff --git a/src/bundle/digitalResource/formatInterface.php b/src/bundle/digitalResource/formatInterface.php
index 272c394903a302984cb118760d3fae7c159cbe34..ac3f9a055e1d75cfc9c9ec1a27be5e54b7d0c989 100755
--- a/src/bundle/digitalResource/formatInterface.php
+++ b/src/bundle/digitalResource/formatInterface.php
@@ -48,8 +48,7 @@ interface formatInterface
 
     /**
      * Get the list of type
-     * @param string $contents
-     * @param string $extension
+     *
      * @action digitalResource/format/getFileInformation
      */
     public function createFileformatinformation($contents, $extension);
diff --git a/src/presentation/maarchRM/Resources/view/digitalResource/format/index.html b/src/presentation/maarchRM/Resources/view/digitalResource/format/index.html
index a337b5a758cc9a19cb247c426c29df06be294332..ce8cac211707e1b551d5cba5979c12c965d7a5a5 100755
--- a/src/presentation/maarchRM/Resources/view/digitalResource/format/index.html
+++ b/src/presentation/maarchRM/Resources/view/digitalResource/format/index.html
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ file that was distributed with this source code.
                     contents  : file.contents,
                     extension : file.extension
             },*/
-            data : JSON.stringify({contents  : file.contents, extension : file.extension}),
+            data : JSON.stringify({'contents'  : file.contents, 'extension' : file.extension}),
             contentType : 'application/json',
             dataType    : 'json',
             success     : function (response) {