"An experieced Optical Character Recognition engine for highly accurate Nationwide License Plate Recognition."

The Transport Data Systems License Plate Recognition (LPR) System provides a quick and efficient method for obtaining a machine readable license number from a high resolution image of the front or rear of a vehicle. The LPR is a standalone application that runs under the either the Linux or Windows operating systems. In a typical operation the LPR server processes the images from a specified input directory, performs the LPR function, and places the resulting ASCII file with the license number in a specified output directory. The flexible design allows performance increases to be achieved through the addition of multiple servers, CPUs, et cetera. The LPR application can also be used in a real time system to provide license plate numbers for entry into a license plate database. This is useful in situations where the license plates of vehicles entering a parking lot must be immediately available for further processing upon vehicle exit. The accuracy of the LPR process is directly related to the pixel density of the image and the noise characteristics of the camera. The system works well with the 2 and 5 megapixel camera systems that are provided by TDS as part of its image capture systems.

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