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Re: Car number plate capture/recognition



To capture short video etc.... Homewatcher can be useful....it uses pixels
to determine if movement occurs and can be set to differing parameters.

To isolate area with alphanumerics is powerful stuff indeed.....

Campbell
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Paterson" <david.paterson@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Car number plate capture/recognition


> On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:03:16 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >The discussion on this last time was that Mike Huggins (of
letsautomate.com)
> >was doing this at his house.
> >
> >Also that it was hideously expensive from memory.
>
> Yikes!  Well, I was hoping for a fairly simple DIY solution, just using
> the camera, video capture card, and maybe some smart software.
>
> I remember seeing a blackbird caught in mid-flight on somebody's system,
> which I thought might be the sort of system I'd need to capture short
> bursts of video for anything passing in front of the house.
>
> Well, if there's nothing easy or cheap out there, maybe I should look
> into doing something myself.  Time to start reading up on video capture
> and processing I think :-)
>
> David P.
>
>
>
> For more information: http://www.automatedhome.co.uk
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