Latest colour license plate reader system with Arabic character recognition claims 95% accuracy
Perceptics has introduced a license plate reader (LPR) system that uses the licence plate colour as one of the optical character recognition (OCR) variables for critical Middle Eastern border security applications, which it claims achieves 95% accuracy in determining the country of the licenses plate´s origin.
Perceptics says the colour LPR systems with Arabic OCR enable security officials to improve threat detection by quickly identifying vehicles in need of further scrutiny by helping to quickly identify the home of a license plate.
The company says it is the first LPR/automatic number plate recognition manufacturer to utilise the license plates´ colour as a discriminator in its OCR software engine. Perceptics claims its stroboscopic illumination and OCR engine overcome the limitations of an infrared-based LPR system and deliver highly accurate, real-time license plate results in less than a second. The company says that an infrared LPR system cannot read non-reflective plates or a red plate with white letters or a white plate with red letters.
Perceptics monochrome and colour LPR systems now support both Arabic and English character recognition. 