Number Plate Recognition and Document Verification using Feature Extraction OCR Algorithm

Abstract

The police forces around the world use vehicle number plate for legal vehicle authorization purposes, to check if a vehicle is registered or licensed. Most of us keep the vehicle papers in the vehicle itself, which is not at all safe in case of theft. In today's world, it is not secure to carry our vehicle papers and wherever we go. Hence a system must be designed in which it is not necessary to carry our important documents to each and every place for verification. The aim is to design a system which captures the image of the number plate of a vehicle using a camera and the details are being retrieved using the character segmentation which is done by a feature extraction optical character recognition algorithm (OCR). Then the details retrieved from the number plate in text format is used to extract all the important information of the vehicle like, the name of the owner, address of the owner, date of registration of the vehicle etc. from the database. The police can verify whether the documents are fake or not. For us, it is useful as we do not have to carry our documents to every place with the fear of losing them.