Read License Plate

VB C#

using IronOcr;
using IronSoftware.Drawing;

// Instantiate OCR engine
var ocr = new IronTesseract();

using var inputLicensePlate = new OcrInput();

inputLicensePlate.LoadImage("LicensePlate.jpeg");

// Perform OCR
OcrLicensePlateResult result = ocr.ReadLicensePlate(inputLicensePlate);

// Retrieve license plate coordinates
Rectangle rectangle = result.Licenseplate;

// Retrieve license plate value
string output = result.Text;

Imports IronOcr
Imports IronSoftware.Drawing

' Instantiate OCR engine
Private ocr = New IronTesseract()

Private inputLicensePlate = New OcrInput()

inputLicensePlate.LoadImage("LicensePlate.jpeg")

' Perform OCR
Dim result As OcrLicensePlateResult = ocr.ReadLicensePlate(inputLicensePlate)

' Retrieve license plate coordinates
Dim rectangle As Rectangle = result.Licenseplate

' Retrieve license plate value
Dim output As String = result.Text

Install-Package IronOcr

Read License Plate

This code example shows how to use the IronTesseract OCR engine to recognize and extract text from a license plate image.

An instance of the IronTesseract OCR engine is created. The OcrInput object is initialized and the image containing the license plate ("LicensePlate.jpeg") is loaded using the LoadImage method. The OCR engine performs the recognition process on the loaded image using the ReadLicensePlate method, which is specifically designed to identify license plates. The recognized license plate's bounding box coordinates are retrieved using the Licenseplate property, which returns a Rectangle object representing the area containing the license plate. The text (license plate value) is extracted and stored in the output variable by accessing the Text property of the result. This approach is useful for automatically identifying and extracting license plate numbers from images, which can be applied in various systems like parking management, security, and automated vehicle recognition.