Automatic number plate recognition

We live in a world where; a new technology is being invented every day.In earlier days, books were the major source of information.Optical Character Recognition (OCR) plays an important role to archive the information obtained.The need for reformation of vehicle between reality and the information system has led to the need of OCR system in vehicle's name plate recognition.OCR converts written information to a machine-readable format.In this format information becomes accessible at any time or place.The automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) use OCR technology where the writings on the number-plate are extracted from the scanned image.This method helps to retrieve many other details about the vehicle using the extracted characters.The implementation of the system uses coloured number plate image.It includes majorly two stages-The first stage is to convert the image of the number plate into text and the second stage is to process the text obtained from the number plate that is the recognition.Most of the OCR systems follow the same procedure which comprises of image acquisition, pre-processing, character segmentation and character recognition.The main advantage of using OCR systems is high speed, decreased error and less effort.