Automatic number-plate recognition in just 15 lines of code

Automatic number-plate recognition is a technology that uses optical character recognition on images to read vehicle registration plates.

1. Plate recognizer API
2. Python

Accurate, Fast, Developer- Friendly ALPR

Automatic License Plate Recognition software that works in all environments, optimized for your location. It supports a number of country number plates all over the world.
To see all the countries supported Click Here

To get API Key:

Go to platerecognizer and create an account to get your own API KEY.

Python

1. pip install json
2. pip install requests

Code

import requests
import json
from pprint import pprint

#Automatic number-plate recognition API
regions = ['in']            #Change to your country
with open('IMAGE_PATH', 'rb') as fp:
    response = requests.post(
        'https://api.platerecognizer.com/v1/plate-reader/',
        data=dict(regions=regions),
        files=dict(upload=fp),
        headers={'Authorization': 'Token YOUR_API_KEY'})
data = response.json()

#print output in JSON Format
pprint(data)

#get number plate value from JSON response
for plate in data['results']:
    plate_data = plate['plate']
print(plate_data)

View full project code on my Github

Comments

[fuweismartocr]

Super concise ALPR implementation with only 15 Python lines! Using Plate Recognizer API drastically lowers the development threshold for license plate recognition projects, great reference for beginners learning optical character recognition.