A Survey on OCR Based Number Plate Recognition for Indian Conditions

Abstract

OCR based number plate recognition system automatically recognizes the license number of vehicles. This system has algorithms like: ‘Feature based number plate Localization' for locating the number plate, ‘horizontal and vertical projection' for character segmentation Template method to normalize the characters and OCR for character recognition. The other main feature of this system is connecting to the database. This survey presents different types of techniques to recognize characters and different techniques to improve accuracy.