Automatic Number Plate Recognition

A simple license plate number recognizer/extractor. Based on Nicholas Renotte's ANPR Tutorial

Environment

• Anaconda (v4.5.11) => for the virtual environment, can use alternatives
• Ubuntu 18.04 on WSL2

Requirements

• OpenCV
• GPU for use in PyTorch
• Proper GPU drivers (for NVIDIA, see here)
• (Optional) A dispaly server for running GUI programs designed for the X Window System (e.g. VcXsrv)

Dev Environment

• VS Code with WSL link

Installation

For new environemnt

conda create --name <env-name> --file requirements.txt

or, for existing (hopefully sparse) environments

conda install --file requirements.txt

That should be it!

Troubleshooting

If PyTorch complains about GPU compatibility, try the following for RTX 3000 series NVIDIA GPUs:

conda install pytorch torchvision cudatoolkit=11 -c pytorch-nightly

Usage

python main.py -i <inputfile>

Where inputfile is the path to your image.

There are some example images in the images directory.

Results

Image 0

Image 1

Image 2

Needs some improvement...