/Licence-Plate-Detection-Using-Open-CV-Python

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License Plate Detection using OpenCV Python and Tesseract OCR

This is a Python project that detects license plates from images and extracts the text from them using OpenCV and Tesseract OCR.

Requirements

To use this project, you'll need to have the following installed:

  • Python 3.6 or higher
  • OpenCV
  • Tesseract OCR

You can install OpenCV and Tesseract OCR using the following commands:

pip install opencv-python pip install pytesseract

Usage

To use this project, you can run the license_plate_detection.py file in the command line or in a Python IDE such as PyCharm or Jupyter Notebook.

The license_plate_detection.py file contains the main code for detecting license plates in an image and extracting the text from them using Tesseract OCR. The code takes an image file as input and outputs the license plate number as a string.

python license_plate_detection.py --image input_image.jpg

## Contributing

If you would like to contribute to this project, please feel free to fork the repository and submit a pull request.

## License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.