Read License Plate

VBC#

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
Dim ocr = New IronTesseract()

Using 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

End Using

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Read License Plate

This approach effectively extracts license plate numbers from images using the IronTesseract OCR engine. The example illustrates:

IronTesseract Initialization: An instance of IronTesseract is created to handle OCR operations.
Image Loading: The image file containing the license plate is loaded using the OcrInput class.
OCR Process: The Read method is used on the OcrInput object, which performs OCR and identifies text from the image.
Result Analysis: The recognized words are iterated. If any word is identified as a license plate, its text and bounding box are printed.

This code can be particularly useful in applications related to parking management, vehicle access control, and automated recognition systems.

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