Talk:Automatic number plate recognition

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[edit] Excellent article

Bravo - well done. Congratulations. Informative and interesting. It should definitely win the competiton.-->Energy (talk) 07:44, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the positive comments – it's always nice to hear that a good job has been done. The writing competition is actually over though, with this coming 6th and with many positive comments – that just goes to show the excellence of the other articles! violet/riga (t) 08:24, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Runs on standard PC hardware"

Who says? There are many systems out there - certainly some of them may run on PCs, maybe even most of them these days. But it's hardly a defining feature of the type; if a company offered a system that ran on Sun servers or IBM mainframes, it would still be a number plate recognition system.

  • In the UK, the vast majority of ANPR software does run on standard x86 architecture (however some well known vendors have written their solution in java so it's probably quite easy to port to other systems)

Systems which run on smart cameras are starting to appear. There will be probably be more in the future. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.55.127.135 (talk) 18:01, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Circumvention

Would the "sprays" and other methods of circumvention fall under "Obstruction of Justice"? IANAL, but it seems like that would be a good way for a judge or prosecutor to go.

Of course, you'd have to prove it was done deliberately, and since you can't use the ANPR< I suppose finding the car would be difficult....

Hair spray works just as well, as far as i can tell anyways.

[edit] Controversy

This section is a bit weak - the quote from Gregg whoever is especially unconvincing. It's important to distinguish between systems like red-light cameras (you get recorded if you break the law), and the (far more frightening from a privacy point of view) average speed measurement systems (you get recorded and kept on file even when you've done NOTHING wrong) - where are the safeguards what happens to the data? Will they be able to track every law-abiding motorist at whim? This should be stressed more in this section, I feel.

[edit] Abbreviations

I'd find it helpful if there were parenthesis with abbreviations beside the words that would be abbreviated through the text so that the reader doesn't have to figure out by himself what the acronym means. 132.204.227.146 16:08, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Police number plate cameras may breach RIPA

ladies and gentlemen I beg your attention on this subject: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/17/anpr_ripa_breach/ I am not one to be writing articles , but I feel that it is worthy of mentioning this.

[edit] Crossreference to Stockholm_congestion_tax#Technology?

Even though that section isn't very long, I'm pretty sure there is a lot more relevant info available on the internet, that both articles could be extended with. TERdON 02:19, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FAR

There's a lot of work needed here; a featured article review can be avoided by addressing some of the deficiencies. There are a lot of cite tags, uncited hard data, short stubby sections, a lot of external jumps throughout the text, WP:DASH problems, unformatted incomplete citations (see WP:CITE/ES), attention to non-breaking hard spaces is needed (see WP:UNITS), and attention to WP:MOS#Captions punctuation is needed. Hopefully some of this can be done so a review can be avoided. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:28, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FE-Mittelschrift typeface

Interesting article at SpiekerBlog (en): Complete forgery detailing Germany's new licence plate typeface: "The official typeface for our license plates is now called FE-Mittelschrift, with FE meaning it is Fälschungs-Erschwert, i.e. difficult to forge." Just a pointer, in case there's any usable information for this article, or somewhere else related. :) -- Quiddity (talk) 08:04, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Ah, a bit more at German car number plates#Typeface. -- Quiddity (talk) 08:20, 14 March 2008 (UTC)