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Detect and blur license plates from images or video using OCR-based text detection. part-1

AjitCv2 · 1 year ago

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In this video, I demonstrate how to automatically detect and blur license plates from images using Python, OpenCV, and Tesseract ...

This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of AjitCv2, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.

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