README.md

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title: PlateVision
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sdk: streamlit
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sdk_version: 1.50.0
short_description: AI-Powered License Plate Detection & Recognition from Images

🚗 PlateVision 🔍

AI-Powered License Plate Detection & Recognition from Images and Videos

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🧠 Overview

PlateVision is an AI-powered web app built with Streamlit that detects and recognizes vehicle license plates from images and videos using a fine-tuned YOLOv8 model and EasyOCR.

It seamlessly combines object detection and optical character recognition (OCR) to deliver a simple, intuitive, and interactive platform where users can upload their media files and get annotated results in seconds — complete with confidence scores and recognized text overlays.

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✨ Features

✅ Detects license plates from both images and videos
✅ Extracts license numbers using OCR (EasyOCR)
✅ Displays detection confidence and recognized text on output
✅ Supports multiple formats — .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .mp4, .mkv
✅ Shows real-time progress while processing videos
✅ Provides a clean Streamlit interface for easy interaction
✅ Outputs processed results with bounding boxes and plate numbers drawn on frames

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⚙️ How It Works

1. Upload Input File

   • The user uploads an image or video through the Streamlit interface.

2. License Plate Detection (YOLOv8)

   • A custom fine-tuned YOLOv8 model detects the position of license plates in the media.

3. Text Recognition (EasyOCR)

   • The detected plate region is passed through EasyOCR to read and extract the license number.

4. Annotation & Output

   • Detected plates are annotated with bounding boxes, confidence percentages, and extracted text.
   • For videos, frames are processed sequentially and stitched back together using MoviePy.

5. Display

   • The processed media (image or video) is displayed directly in the Streamlit app.

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🧩 Tech Stack

Component	Technology / Library	Purpose
🧱 Frontend & UI	Streamlit	Builds the interactive web interface
🧠 Object Detection	YOLOv8 (Ultralytics)	Detects license plate locations
🔍 OCR Engine	EasyOCR	Recognizes alphanumeric text from plates
🎥 Video Handling	MoviePy	Processes and reconstructs video frames
👁️ Computer Vision	OpenCV	Image manipulation and annotation
💾 Language	Python 3.11+	Development language

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