NUMBER PLATE RECOGNITION USING OCR TECHNIQUE

Abstract

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is a special form of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). ANPR is an image processing technology which identifies the vehicle from its number plate automatically by digital pictures. In this paper we have presented an algorithm for vehicle number identification based on Optical Character Recognition (OCR). OCR is used to recognize an optically processed printed character number plate which is based on template matching. This algorithm is tested on different ambient illumination vehicle images. OCR is the last stage in vehicle number plate recognition. In recognition stage the characters on the number plate are converted into texts. The characters are then recognized using the template matching algorithm.