Automatic License-Plate Recognition Using Optical Character Recognition

Abstract — In the contemporary era, the number of vehicles on the roads has been growing exponentially, which raised the need to automate the process of controlling traffic violations. In this work, we aim to develop a license plate recognition method using the Optical Character Recognition technology and Google Brain’s Tensorflow classification library to accomplish the mission of extracting and recognizing characters from license plate images. Moreover, this method can also be helpful for other character recognition applications.