Efficient Vehicle Detection System using OCR and REST API

Abstract

Number plate recognition has been one of the active and challenging research areas in the field of image processing and character recognition. It has numerous application which includes, law enforcement, fake vehicle registration, traffic control and electronic toll collection.In this paper an attempt is made to recognize characters in number plate using OCR through REST API.The vehicle plate image is obtained by the digital cameras and the image is processed in REST application program interface (API) to get the number plate information. In this context, the number plate area is recognised using Optical Character Recognition. The results show that the proposed system yields good recognition rates which are comparable to that neural network based number plate recognition.