According to survey taken the total number of
vehicles in [1] India were 260 million. Therefore, there is a
need to develop Automatic Number Plate Recognition
(ANPR) systems [1] in India because of the large number of
vehicles travelling on the roads. [1] It would also help in
proper tracking of the vehicles, traffic examining, finding
stolen vehicles, supervising parking toll and imposing strict
actions against red light breaching. Automatic number
plate recognition is image processing technique for finding
number plate from image and extracting characters from
detected number plate. ANPR in India has always been
challenging due to different lighting conditions, changes in
fonts, shapes, angles, letters size, number of lines and
padding between lines, different languages used. In our
project we proposed a model that can detects number plate
with considering all irregularities. this system uses
Computer vision and machine learning technology in order
to detect number plate from image. In our proposed system
number plate can be of different fonts and non-roman
script. For identification of characters from number plate
we use OCR (Optical character recognition) technique.
OCR involves two parts: Character segmentation and
Character Recognition. This OCR system can be used to
extract characters of different fonts and non-roman script.
The Quality of OCR depends on the quality of image, image
contrast, text font style and size. To improve quality of OCR
we can use image processing technique to enhance quality
of image.