lp-recognizer

An Automatic License Plate Recognition tool based on the ultimateALPR-SDK [0].

Building && Running it on Ubuntu 20.04

Please find the info for building/using ultimateALPR-SDK at [0]. It applies to this tool as well.

Clone the ultimateALPR:

$ git clone https://github.com/DoubangoTelecom/ultimateALPR-SDK.git

Download the tensorflow and copy it into the binaries/linux/x86_64 folder (https://github.com/DoubangoTelecom/ultimateALPR-SDK/blob/master/samples/c%2B%2B/README.md#linux).
```
$ tar -C ${path-to-the-ultalpr}/ultimateALPR-SDK/binaries/linux/x86_64/ -xf ~/Downloads/libtensorflow_r1.14_cpu+gpu_linux_x86-64.tar.gz
```

Set up build of the lp-recognizer:

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake ../lp-recognizer/ -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-L${path-to-the-ultalpr}/ultimateALPR-SDK/binaries/linux/x86_64 -I${path-to-the-ultalpr}/ultimateALPR-SDK/c++ -I/${path-to-the-ultalpr}/ultimateALPR-SDK/samples/c++" -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-L/${path-to-the-ultalpr}/ultimateALPR-SDK/binaries/linux/x86_64 -I${path-to-the-ultalpr}/ultimateALPR-SDK/c++ -I${path-to-the-ultalpr}/ultimateALPR-SDK/samples/c++"
$ make

Running the lp-recognizer:

Before we run the tool install openCL library:

   $ sudo apt install ocl-icd-opencl-dev
   $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${path-to-the-ultalpr}/ultimateALPR-SDK/binaries/linux/x86_64
   $ cd ../examples/
   $ ../build/lp-recognizer --assets ${path-to-the-ultalpr}/ultimateALPR-SDK/assets --config ../config.json --port 8989

The server expects just paths to the images to be processed. The client will recieve a JSON object that containts the outcome of using the [0] library.

[0] https://github.com/DoubangoTelecom/ultimateALPR-SDK

djolertrk/lp-recognizer

lp-recognizer

Building && Running it on Ubuntu 20.04