Pipeline
How it works
Photos are sent to a Raspberry Pi, which finds plates and reads them.
01
Upload a photo
The site sends the image to the API and draws the boxes that come back.
02
Raspberry Pi
A service on the Pi handles recognition, one image at a time.
03
Find the plate
A detector locates licence plate regions in the photo.
04
Read the characters
OCR reads the cropped plate and returns the text with a confidence score.
05
NZ format
Common character mix-ups like 0/O and 8/B are checked against New Zealand plate patterns.