License Plate Reader

Introduction

This repository contains a Python script that returns the license plate in plain text from a given image or RTSP stream.

Running the project locally

If you want to run the project locally on your own computer, you can do so in two ways. You can run it like in production and start the Docker container or run it like you would when developing.

Production-like

Here is assumed that you have Docker installed correctly.

Start of by building the images: .\00_build_image.cmd or ./00_build_image.sh. Alternatively, you can also pull the images that are already build by: .\00b_pull_image.cmd or ./00b_pull_image.sh.

Execution

Start reader by: .\01_start_container.cmd or ./01_start_container.sh.

Development

Here is assumed that you have Python 3 installed correctly.

Execution

1. Go the the app directory by: cd app.
2. Install system dependencies by: sudo apt install tesseract-ocr.
3. Install Python dependencies by: pip3 install -r requirements.txt.
4. Run the project by: python3 server.py.