diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 66cf8ea..b61bc19 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 .idea
 node_modules
 dist
-
+temp
diff --git a/src/Markdown.ts b/src/Markdown.ts
index d9ef82a..e2f70e1 100644
--- a/src/Markdown.ts
+++ b/src/Markdown.ts
@@ -12,12 +12,18 @@ const api = new GhostAdminAPI({
   version: "v4.0",
 });
 let convertor = new Convertor("./src/data/markdown-it-example.md");
-convertor.processImages(api, "./");
+convertor
+  .processImages(api, "./temp")
+  .then(() => {
+    console.log("ok");
+  })
+  .catch((r) => {
+    console.log(r);
+  });
 
 let mdoc: string = ""; //convertor.process();
 
 let creation = false;
-let imageUpload = true;
 
 if (creation) {
   api.posts
diff --git a/src/convertor/Processors.ts b/src/convertor/Processors.ts
index 6d23b50..fef5b8f 100644
--- a/src/convertor/Processors.ts
+++ b/src/convertor/Processors.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ interface Stack {
   meta: any;
   token: Token;
 }
+interface StackedImage {
+  path: string;
+  url: string;
+}
 
 const renderer: any = Renderer;
 
@@ -21,6 +25,7 @@ const headerAsMarkdown = true;
 export class Convertor {
   markups: Record<string, any> = {};
   markers: Record<string, any> = {};
+  images: Record<string, StackedImage> = {};
   sections: any[] = [];
   builder: any = new PostNodeBuilder();
 
@@ -209,28 +214,50 @@ export class Convertor {
    *
    * @returns this
    */
-  public processImages(api: any, basepath: string): Convertor {
+  public async processImages(api: any, basepath: string) {
     // collect images in an array
     const imageRegex = /!\[[^\]]*\]\((.*?)\s*("(?:.*[^"])")?\s*\)/g;
-    let images: string[] = [];
-    let m: any;
-    while ((m = imageRegex.exec(this.content))) {
-      if (images.indexOf(m[1]) < 0) images.push(m[1]);
-    }
-    console.log("Images: ", JSON.stringify(images));
+    //let images: string[] = [];
+    //let m: any;
+    [...this.content.matchAll(imageRegex)].forEach(async (item) => {
+      console.log(JSON.stringify(item));
+      if (item[1] in this.images) {
+        console.log("Skip cached image for URL: ", item[1]);
+      } else {
+        let url = item[1];
+        // Add the image to the cache of processed images
+        this.images[url] = {
+          path: url,
+          url: url,
+        };
 
-    // download image locally if in an url
-    images.forEach(async (url) => {
-      let localpath = url;
-      if (url.toLowerCase().startsWith("http")) {
-        // Download the image locally
-        let localPath = path.join(basepath, path.basename(url));
-        await downloadImagefromURL(url, localPath);
-        if (api) {
-          await uploadToGhost(api, localPath);
+        // Download images locally if not already
+        if (url.toLowerCase().startsWith("http")) {
+          // Download the image locally
+          let localpath = path.join(basepath, path.basename(url));
+          await downloadImagefromURL(url, localpath);
+
+          // Upload the image to ghost
+          if (api) {
+            let reference = await uploadToGhost(api, localpath);
+            this.images[url].url = reference.url;
+          }
         }
+
+        // replace the image string with the new URL
+        console.log(
+          "replace",
+          this.images[url].path,
+          " with ",
+          this.images[url].url
+        );
+        this.content = this.content.replaceAll(
+          this.images[url].path,
+          this.images[url].url
+        );
       }
+
+      console.log(this.content);
     });
-    return this;
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/convertor/images.ts b/src/convertor/images.ts
index c637320..ab43386 100644
--- a/src/convertor/images.ts
+++ b/src/convertor/images.ts
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ import fs from "fs";
 import http from "http";
 import https from "https";
 import path from "path";
+import { Blob } from "buffer";
 
 import stream from "stream";
-import { Z_FIXED } from "zlib";
 
 const Stream = stream.Transform;
 
@@ -35,18 +35,26 @@ export async function downloadImagefromURL(url: string, filename: string) {
 }
 
 interface Image {
-  file: Blob | File | undefined;
+  file: Blob | File | string;
   purpose: "image" | "profile_image" | "icon";
   ref?: string;
 }
 
-export async function uploadToGhost(api: any, filename: string) {
-  const data: Buffer = fs.readFileSync(filename);
+export interface GhostReference {
+  url: string;
+  ref: string;
+}
+
+export async function uploadToGhost(
+  api: any,
+  filename: string
+): Promise<GhostReference> {
+  //const data: Buffer = fs.readFileSync(filename);
   let image: Image = {
     ref: path.basename(filename),
-    file: new Blob([data]),
+    file: filename,
     purpose: "image",
   };
   let result = api.images.upload(image);
-  console.log(JSON.stringify(result));
+  return result;
 }
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index b9fb561..24a914e 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
     "module": "CommonJS",
     "moduleResolution": "Node",
-    "target": "ES2015",
+    "target": "ES2021",
     "outDir": "./dist",
     "declaration": true,
     "declarationDir": "./dist/__types__",
@@ -31,7 +31,5 @@
     "strictNullChecks": true,
     "strictPropertyInitialization": true
   },
-  "include": [
-    "./src"
-  ]
+  "include": ["./src"]
 }