# How to provide embeddings instead of Weavite calculating embeddings using t2v-transformers? Reason for doing that is to avoid storing content in weavite?

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hi @csplrj ! Welcome to our community! 🤗

I have just answered a thread here that touches this subject, but for image embeddings. check it out:

> [@Optimizing Weaviate for Image Embedding Search without Storing Images](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/optimizing-weaviate-for-image-embedding-search-without-storing-images/498/2):
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> Hi @nomomon ! Welcome to our community hugs I don’t think that one can use Weaviate vectorization modules and do not store the image with it as of now. However, you can supply the vectors yourself. So when a new image comes in, you vectorize it yourself, ingest only the image metadata (filename, geolocation, etc.), it’s vectors and the S3 reference. Notice that, whenever doing a query, you will need to also vectorize the image in order to query it against your collection. Here is a tutoria…

Here is a tutorial that might help you with that:

> **[Quickstart: Bring your own vectors | Weaviate Documentation](https://docs.weaviate.io/weaviate/starter-guides/custom-vectors)**
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> Weaviate is a vector database. Vector databases store data objects and vectors that represent those objects. The vector embedding is also called an "embedding."

Let me know if this helps!

Thanks!

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