Flask Mongoengine Paginated Documents With Image Field

Not seeing this exact question posted, so feel free to point to it if it exists. I'm also new to mongo, so my verbiage is likely weird. I have a document collection which will eve

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I ended up just using Mongo as a key/value and Azure Blob storage to store the files. This ended up being a better solution for a variety of reasons from cost to content delivery and scale-ability.