A simple web application to detect the registration number of the vehicle from the uploaded image. The application uses the OpenALPR library to identify the registration number. Users can go to the application, upload any vehicle's image and get the registration number. Currently, the application can detect only US-based vehicle registration numbers. Support for other countries will be added to the application in the near future.

Note : Wait for about 5 seconds for it to load

✅ Upload images of vehicles

✅ Get the registration numbers of US-based vehicles

• Frontend
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • MaterializeCSS
  • Javascript
• Backend
  • Python
  • Django
  • PostgreSQL
  • OpenALPR

1. What is ALPR?
2. How to install ALPR?
3. Project Setup
4. Database Setup
5. Class Diagram
6. ER Diagram
7. Anticipated features

OpenALPR is an open-source Automatic License Plate Recognition library written in C++ with bindings in C#, Java, Node.js, Go, and Python. The library analyzes images and video streams to identify license plates. The output is the text representation of any license plate characters.

For Ubuntu: Follow the steps mentioned here to install the necessary packages and libraries required in order for ALPR to function smoothly

After doing that, go to /openalpr/src/bindings/python and run python setup.py build followed by sudo python setup.py install This will install the OpenALPR library onto your system.

Note: Make sure you have Python version 3.8+ and Postgres 14 or above

Environment Setup

$ git clone https://github.com/Akash1362000/Vehicle-Registration-Number-Recognition.git

$ cd plate-detector/

Create .env file (refer .env.example file)

Generate SECRET_KEY from here

Install Postgres Latest version from here

Install pgAdmin from here

Create a Database using pgAdmin by following the steps mentioned here

Update your DATABASE_NAME, DATABASE_USER and DATABASE_PASSWORD in .env with your DB details

Install requirements

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

$ pre-commit install

$ python manage.py migrate

Create superuser: $ python manage.py createsuperuser

That's it. You're all Set!

Run python manage.py test to check whether ALPR is properly installed on your system

To run the server: $ python manage.py runserver

Open your desired browser and head over to http://127.0.0.1:8000/

• Add support to detect registration numbers of Indian Vehicles
• Add support to detect registration numbers from video files
• Add support to store the uploaded images safely on Amazon S3
• Dockerize the application