There is a ton of ways having new scripting in sqlcl can help. One example is a simpler way to load a local file into a BLOB in a column.
Prior to this the only options I know of would be to write custom code or move the files to the server and use utl_file or xdb or some combination of things like this.
Enter SQLCL and javascript method #1.
Here's a simple script which loads a local file
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