Capture a Image from a live video streaming and display the image in a static text box using python

Question

I am using a parking camera where i need to capture a image of a Number plate from a live video streaming.

I developed a python GUI and i need to capture and display the image, text of the Number plate as well in the same GUI.

Could any one help me out in developing a python based basic functionality.

Answer 1

OpenCV could be helpful for this kind of task. This post covers a similar task and could give you some inspiration on how to tackle the problem (but in C++): How to extracting line of text from image using OpenCV

Another lengthy post can be found here (all python): Simple Digit Recognition OCR in OpenCV-Python

Answer 2

Check out OpenALPR (http://www.openalpr.com). This should solve the problem of showing the number plate and the text within it. It's written in C++ though, so you'd need to hook that into your Python program.