📝 Description:
Initial release of the Python-based car license plate reader optimized for French license plates 🇫🇷.
This version includes:
• 🧠 OCR-powered text extraction using Tesseract
• 🛠️ Plate detection via OpenCV (edge + contour filtering)
• ⚙️ Custom image preprocessing pipeline for higher accuracy
• 📄 Sample-ready structure for easy plug-and-play use
• 🐍 Python script to process all vehicle images from the cars/ folder
• 📥 Works cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux)
Ready to use, simple to extend, and perfect for educational or real-world OCR use cases.
📌 Project repo: github.com/mostafabaghi/python-car-plate-reader