Recognizing the Iraqi License Plate Using Statistical Features

Number recognition is one of text detection and recognition from natural scene image tasks. Detecting and reading text from natural images is computer vision task, which has been included in the various modern applications. Some of these applications are advertisement recognition signs streets, traffic signs, recognition mobile phone numbers, license plate recognition and others. Number recognition consists of three stages, which are detection, segmentation and recognition. The first one is detecting the text or characters, second stage is segmenting the text into individual characters, and thethird stage is recognizing these characters.