LicensePlateRecognition

Summary

An automated system for car license plate detection and recognition

Thanks to eevee for the hq2x python module

Setup instructions:

Install Python v2.7.* 32-bit
Install OpenCV 2.x (OS X guide here)
Install Tesseract 3.02 (higher versions don't work with python-tesseract yet)
Install the following Python packages:

numpy
Pillow (fork of PIL)
python-tesseract

Extract tessdata in the main folder
Place pictures on which to perform detection in the main/images folder, or you can download my test pictures
OPTIONAL, to use the GUI:

Install (or build from source) sip
Install (or build from source) PyQt5

Enter the project directory and run the following commands:

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:.
python main/main.py