hi, am doing a project which requires me to GET images using http protocol and then perform optical character recognition(OCR) on it.
Q1) Are images normally encoded using some form of encoding like Base64, etc such that I have to decode it before processing?
Q2) If so, what forms of encoding are normally used?
Q3) How do I store the received bytes, what data structure can I use, etc?
Q4) Are there any good books/references on OCR algorithms?