I can't recall if I pointed to this post before:
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/05/09/Another-approach-to-embedding-org-source-in-html/

but it is similar to what you are trying to do.

John

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On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com>
wrote:

> Since you too are exploring packaging, this might give you some test:
>
>
> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/03/05/Creating-a-transportable-zip-archive-of-an-org-file/
> Sincerely,
>
> Grant Rettke
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Greg Sexton <gsexton@amazon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I did find a post about this from around 2009 but I'm not sure it went
> > anywhere. It's very useful for me to be able to export a single html
> > file that I can distribute around. Base 64 encoding images directly in
> > to the exported html makes this possible.
> >
> > The feature seems fairly well supported by browsers these days.[1]
> >
> > I've hacked up this ugly proof of concept. I guess it wouldn't take too
> > much to productionize this and make the behavior configurable. Any
> > thoughts?
> >
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > (defun gs/b64-img (file-uri)
> >   (let ((file (s-replace "file://" "" file-uri)))
> >     (if (f-exists? file)
> >         ;; src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUh..."
> >         (s-concat "data:image/"
> >                   (f-ext file)
> >                   ";base64,"
> >                   (base64-encode-string (f-read-bytes file)))
> >       file-uri)))
> >
> > (defun org-html--format-image (source attributes info)
> >   "Return \"img\" tag with given SOURCE and ATTRIBUTES.
> > SOURCE is a string specifying the location of the image.
> > ATTRIBUTES is a plist, as returned by
> > `org-export-read-attribute'.  INFO is a plist used as
> > a communication channel."
> >   (org-html-close-tag
> >    "img"
> >    (org-html--make-attribute-string
> >     (org-combine-plists
> >      (list :src (gs/b64-img source)   ; <-- interesting line is here
> >            :alt (if (string-match-p "^ltxpng/" source)
> >                     (org-html-encode-plain-text
> >                      (org-find-text-property-in-string 'org-latex-src
> source))
> >                   (file-name-nondirectory source)))
> >      attributes))
> >    info))
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> >
> >
> > [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1207190/embedding-base64-images
> >
> > --
> >  Greg
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
>