Hi,

Alper thanks for your help. I will try this today and im sure i'll be
back with more questions!

Cheers
Pat

--- In OpenCV@yahoogroups.com, Alper Yaman <alperyaman@...> wrote:
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> After detecting edges, you should apply morphological close
operation. However, you should select kernel size considering the
plate size. After that, you should apply connected component algorithm
and filter very big and very small size objects. Hence, the remaining
objects are plate candidates which you can detect characters for each
candidate.
> Regards,
> Alper
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> --- On Sat, 2/14/09, pat.rohan <pat.rohan@...> wrote:
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> From: pat.rohan <pat.rohan@...>
> Subject: [OpenCV] License Plate Localization
> To: OpenCV@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, February 14, 2009, 10:26 PM
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