License Plate Detection and Reader (YOLO + EasyOCR)

This project detects and reads vehicle license plates using a custom-trained YOLO model and EasyOCR for text extraction.

Prerequisite

1. Activate a Conda environment and install dependencies

conda create -n plate_ocr python=3.9 -y
conda activate plate_ocr

pip install ultralytics easyocr opencv-python

2. Dataset

This project was tested on the License Plate Detection Dataset from Roboflow Universe.

• Source: Roboflow
• Dataset Version: v3
• License: CC BY 4.0 All dataset credits belong to the original contributors on Roboflow.

3. YOLOv8 Model The custom-trained YOLOv8 model used in this project was obtained from the following GitHub repository:

Muhammad-Zeerak-Khan / Automatic-License-Plate-Recognition-using-YOLOv8

4. Add your file PATHS in cars_license_plate_ocr.py and run the program.

   PLATE_IMAGE_PATH, MODEL_PATH

5. Results