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This application demonstrates the license plates recognition service. The application is designed to recognize license plates of the Republic of Kazakhstan. When you run the application, you can choose the plates folder with command Open in which the different sets of license plates, when you press Run, happening recognition of the license plates images. To run demonstration application, you can run a script main_window.py or use or Demo.bat

This application is used for character recognition: Method of simple patterns, Support Vector Machine, Method k-Nearest neighbors, Artificial neural network and an Complex OCR method. To test the script recognition methods designed test.py, also you can use Test OCR.bat

###1 Installing Python & Opencv & Numpy

####1.1 Python

Download Windows x86 MSI installer from:

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2711/

#####Install:

Run installer and have a fun.

#####PATH:
Add "C:\Python27" to PATH variable.

####1.2 Python package installer (pip) Download from:
https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py

#####Install: Open cmd, go to folder with get-pip.py and write:

> python get-pip.py

#####PATH:
Add "C:\Python27\Scripts" to PATH variable

####1.3 Numpy

#####Install: Open cmd and type:

> pip install numpy

####1.4 Opencv

Download from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/opencv-win/3.1.0/
Extract OpenCV (will be extracted to a folder opencv)
Copy ..\opencv\build\python\x86\2.7\cv2.pyd
Paste it in C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages
Open Python IDLE or python console, and type:

>>> import cv2

If no errors shown, it is OK.

###2 Installing FANN and PyQt4

####2.1 Wheel

Install wheel using command line:

> pip install wheel

####2.2 Fann

#####Download: Go to site: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
Choose: fann2-1.0.7-cp27-none-win32.whl

#####Install: Go to downloads folder. Open cmd and type:

> pip install fann2-1.0.7-cp27-none-win32.whl

####2.3 Installing PyQt4 library

Go to: https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download/
Download: PyQt4-4.11.4-gpl-Py2.7-Qt4.8.7-x32.exe

OR just:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyqt/files/PyQt4/PyQt-4.11.4/PyQt4-4.11.4-gpl-Py2.7-Qt4.8.7-x32.exe

Contributor: capital-boss
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This software licensed under the Apache Licence v2.0