Iraqi car license plate recognition using OCR

License plate recognition (LPR) system is an important system in our life. LPR is an image processing and a character recognition system that used to recognize any car from the others. An automatic license plate recognition system for the three different Iraqi car license plates was proposed in this paper. Differentiating between the three styles were done depending on the plate size. An optical character recognition (OCR) is used with correlation approach and templates matching for plate recognition by segmenting each number, character and word into sub images. The software used is MATLAB R2014a. The algorithm is successfully constructed with sample of images correctly identified.