Automatic License Plate Recognition (or as frequently called 'number plate recognition') is a special form of optical character recognition (OCR).

License plate recognition (LPR) is a type of technology, mainly software, that enables computer systems to read automatically the registration number (license number) of vehicles from digital pictures. Reading automatically the registration number means transforming the pixels of the digital image into the ASCII text of the number plate.

While license plate recognition has special type of OCR technology, today optical character recognition (OCR) technology is considered strictly a type of technology - mainly software - that lets you scan paper documents and turn them into electronic, editable files.

We design and develop high quality recognition software for the automatic recognition of vehicle license plates.

We market our CARMEN® license plate recognition software as a license plate recognition engine along with a software development kit (SDK). We offer it to you in this integratable form in order to let you incorporate LPR technology into your computer system.

Your computer system equipped with our CARMEN® Automatic Number Plate Recognition Software Engine becomes capable of reading the registration number of any vehicle from around the World with the highest accuracy under a fraction of a second.

Beside the development of the core license plate recognition technology, we design, manufacture and market supplemental hardware devices specially engineered for the image capturing task of number plate recognition. With our FXCAM IBW ANPR Cameras and our FXVD4 Industrial Frame Grabber Cards your system will be plug-and-play-equipped with an ultimate high quality image capturing technology for 24hour/day, 7days/week operation.

We offer you the ultimate license plate recognition technology of the highest quality on a competitive price.

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While License Plate Recognition, abbreviated as LPR, and Automatic Number Plate Recognition, abbreviated as ANPR are the most commonly understood terms, there are several other living expressions for LPR, such as: license plate reading, numberplate recognition, car plate recognition, car license recognition, car plate reading, registration number recognition, automatic plate identification, automatic plate reading, optical plate recognition, vehicle plate recognition, car plate OCR, automatic license recognition, automatic licence plate recognition, car number OCR, etc...