I am using third-party software to capture a signature that returns an Image class reference object. I can only get a primitive byte array from it though. I need to convert this image to base 64 so I can use it in an HTML template I am generating. But before converting it to a base 64 encoding, I would like to resize/scale it down. This image object is not being stored in the device so casting it to a Bitmap has proved troublesome, and my API version does not have support for BufferedImage. Since all suggestions require the image to be in those two formats, I seem to be stuck. Has anyone here ran into a similar problem?
*the third-party software and the device hardware specifications are proprietary so I cannot share that information
I am using java 8 Android sdk compile version 30 (Android 11)
capture the signature
Image signiture = pos.getSignature();
// TODO add logic to resize the image before conversion to base 64
Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(signiture.getData());
here are some sources I have looked into without much luck
Scale an image which is stored as a byte[] in Java
