Automatic Number Plate Recognition System for Vehicle Identification using Optical Character Recognition

Abstract

: Automatic License Plate Recognition (ANPR) is an image processing technology that uses a license plate to identify the vehicle. The goal is to design an efficient automated vehicle identification system using the vehicle license plate. The system is implemented at the entrance of the security control of a highly restricted area, such as the military zones or the area around the main government offices, for example. Parliament, Supreme Court, etc. The developed system spots the vehicle and then captures the vehicle image. The region of the vehicle's plate is extracted using the segmentation of the image into an image. The optical character recognition technique is used for character recognition. The resulting data is used to compare it with records in a database for specific information such as the owner of the vehicle, place of registration, address, etc. in real image. It is observed in the experiment that the developed system successfully detects and recognizes the vehicle's plate in real images.