The complexity of automatic number plate recognition work varies throughout the world. ANPR is important in the area of traffic problems, highway toll collection, borders and custom security, premises where high security is needed, like Parliament, Legislative Assembly, and so on. The development of Intelligent Transportation System provides the data of vehicle numbers which can be used in follow up, analyses and monitoring. It is an important area of research due to its many applications. ANPR is an advanced machine vision technology used to identify vehicles by their number plates without direct human intervention.
Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system is an important technique, used in Intelligent Transportation System. Character segmentation is done by using connected component and vertical projection analysis. We present the number plate extraction, character segmentation and recognition work, with English characters. Due to variations in the representation of number plates, vehicle number plate extraction, character segmentation and recognition are crucial. Characters on plate are in different Indian languages, as well as in English. In India, number plate models are not followed strictly. This project presents Automatic Number Plate extraction, character segmentation and recognition for Indian vehicles.