Source Code Project for Reading License Plates in Python

Source Code Project for Reading License Plates in Python

“This project is designed to extract vehicle license numbers from images, convert them to text, and store the license plate information along with date and time in a CSV file.

Application

This project finds utility in parking management systems to facilitate vehicle tracking and streamline the parking process.”

Demo

“Dependencies

• OpenCV
• Pandas
• Tesseract 4

Usage The ‘data.csv’ file includes the date, time, and vehicle license numbers.

Tesseract is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) library that supports more than a hundred languages. To change the language:

1. Open the ‘test.py’ file.
2. Modify the ‘config’ variable.
3. Change ‘eng’ to your preferred language code.

Use Tesseract 4, the latest version utilizing LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) networks.

To run the project, execute the following command:

python test.py