Implementation of a license plate identification system in Python and OpenCV

Abstract

This article describes the structure of an implementation of a license plate identification system capable of reading the characters of a license plate from a digital image. It also collects the license plate detecting and character recognizing methods mentioned in the article, and we can read about rules regarding hungary's registered license plates as well. We can gain insight into the world of computer vision, as well as understand what image manipulation procedures a digital image must go through in order to extract characters from it. The system was written in Python and also used methods provided by OpenCV, as well as the Python-Tesseract optical character recognition tool to identify license plate characters.