Beagle automatic number plate recognition

The goal of this project is to develop a portable system for automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) using BeagleBoard. It includes the following:
– receiving images from a camera;
– applying signal processing algorithms for plate localization, orientation and sizing, image normalization, and character segmentation;
– optical character recognition (for instance, Tesseract);
– possible access to a database to check the plate against law infringements.