/* If you have an BLOB image table in Oracle that you want to dump all images to

file, this routine will do the trick.

** We have a table blob_image_table with the following columns:
** image_name varchar2(128)
** image_extension varchar2(128)
** image_blob BLOB */

/* First create the directory physically on disk, then

** as sysdba execute the following commands,
** where your_schema is the schema where you will be executing
** the procedure from */

create or replace directory datadump as '/home/oracle/datadump';

GRANT read, write ON DIRECTORY datadump TO your_schema;
GRANT EXECUTE ON UTL_FILE TO your_schema;

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE unload_images IS

v_file UTL_FILE.FILE_TYPE;
l_buffer RAW(32000);
l_amount BINARY_INTEGER := 32000;
l_pos number := 1;
l_blob BLOB;
l_blob_len number;
v_name VARCHAR2(128);

CURSOR Cimage IS select image_name,image_extension,image_blob

l_blob,dbms_lob.getlength(image_blob) l_blob_len from blob_image_table;

RecordsAffected PLS_INTEGER := 0;
v_CONTENT_LENGTH PLS_INTEGER := 0;
v_CONTENT_LENGTH2 PLS_INTEGER := 0;
v_content clob;
j PLS_INTEGER := 0;
k PLS_INTEGER;
l PLS_INTEGER;
vn_the_rest PLS_INTEGER :=0;
vn_the_rest2 PLS_INTEGER :=0;
v_image_count number;
x number;
BEGIN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Begin Time: '||to_char(sysdate,'MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss'));

FOR Rec IN Cimage LOOP

x := l_blob_len;
-- Open the destination file.
v_name := Rec.image_name||'.'||Rec.image_extension;
v_file := UTL_FILE.FOPEN('DATADUMP',v_name,'wb',32767);
if Rec.l_blob_len < 32000 then
DBMS_LOB.read(Rec.l_blob, Rec.l_blob_len, l_pos, l_buffer);
utl_file.put_raw(v_file,l_buffer, TRUE);
utl_file.fflush(v_file);
else

WHILE l_pos < Rec.l_blob_len and l_amount > 0 LOOP

DBMS_LOB.read(Rec.l_blob, l_amount, l_pos, l_buffer);
UTL_FILE.put_raw(v_file, l_buffer, TRUE);
 utl_file.fflush(v_file);
-- set the start position for the next cut
l_pos := l_pos + l_amount;
-- set the end position if less than 32000 bytes
x := x - l_amount;
IF x < 32000 THEN
l_amount := x;
END IF;
END LOOP;
l_pos := 1;
l_buffer := null;
l_blob := null;
l_amount := 32000;
end if;
RecordsAffected := RecordsAffected + 1;
UTL_FILE.FCLOSE(v_file);
end if;
END LOOP;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('End Time ===> '||to_char(sysdate,'MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss'));
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Image Records Affected: '||RecordsAffected);
EXCEPTION
WHEN utl_file.invalid_path THEN
raise_application_error(-20000, 'Invalid path. Create directory or set
UTL_FILE_DIR.');
WHEN utl_file.WRITE_ERROR THEN
raise_application_error(-20001, 'Operating system error occurred during
the write operation.');
WHEN utl_file.INTERNAL_ERROR THEN
raise_application_error(-20002, 'Unspecified PL/SQL error.');
WHEN utl_file.INVALID_OPERATION THEN
raise_application_error(-20003, 'File could not be opened or operated on
as requested.');
WHEN utl_file.INVALID_FILEHANDLE THEN
raise_application_error(-20004, 'File handle was invalid.');
WHEN utl_file.INVALID_MODE THEN
raise_application_error(-20005, 'The open_mode parameter in FOPEN was
invalid.');
WHEN utl_file.INVALID_MAXLINESIZE THEN
raise_application_error(-20006, 'Specified max_linesize is too large or
too small.');
WHEN OTHERS THEN
-- Close the file if something goes wrong.
IF UTL_FILE.is_open(v_file) THEN
UTL_FILE.fclose(v_file);
END IF;
RAISE;
END;
/

Then in SQL*PLUS execute the routine

execute unload_images;