Open Automatic Number Plate Recognition on Smartphones (former UIT-ANPR).

License plate detection is a common use case which has been solved (somewhat) several times, but felt that we could provide something better than the current options.

How long until a license plate reader data blackmail-style website appears?

OpenALPR is an open source Automatic License Plate Recognition library written in C++ with bindings in C#, Java, Node.js, Go, and Python. The library analyzes images and video streams to identify license plates. The output is the text representation of any license plate characters.