What is ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition)?
ANPR, Automatic Number Plate Recognition, is AI that reads vehicle registration plates from camera footage automatically. The system detects the plate in the frame, isolates the characters, and converts them to text — GJ-01-AB-1234 — along with a timestamp and camera location. It works on live streams for real-time alerts or on recorded footage for after-the-fact searches.
Indian deployments range from society gates that auto-open for resident vehicles and log every visitor, to police investigations that search a week of highway footage for one suspect plate in minutes. Indian conditions are genuinely hard for ANPR — non-standard fonts, decorative plates, dust and mixed scripts — so practical systems combine detection with human verification for critical matches, and store plate images alongside the extracted text.