License Plate Detection and OCR using Roboflow Inference API
Blog post from Roboflow
License Plate Detection and OCR using Roboflow Inference API is a comprehensive guide on building a license plate detection and optical character recognition (OCR) model using the Roboflow platform. The article highlights the wide-ranging applications of object detection, particularly in fields like law enforcement, where Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology is employed to identify vehicles and track individuals in real-time. The process involves loading and preprocessing data through Roboflow's intuitive interface, applying image augmentations to enhance model performance, and training the model using Roboflow Train. Once trained, the model can be deployed programmatically to conduct video inference, allowing users to detect and read license plates efficiently. The tutorial provides detailed instructions on configuring the model's inference process, handling video frames, and using OCR for extracting text from detected license plates, emphasizing the ease of automating these tasks with Roboflow's tools.