Vehicle-number-plate-recognition

Detect a vehicle number plate automatically and in addition to that extract the text and number from the detected number plate image using Optical character recognition(OCR). So it's a combination of both object detection using YOLOv5 and OCR(extract text from images).

Blog about project

For more detailed knowledge about project, read my blog on medium

https://medium.com/@ashok.1055/automatic-number-plate-detection-using-yolov5-and-extraction-of-text-using-ocr-2868668aa479

Result of object detection

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Region of interest

city-call-taxi

OCR result

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In the above image, tesseract recognized the number wrongly as 4 for 1. Yes, Character recognition using OCR is not accurate.There is still lot needs to improve on image processing in future.