Licence Plate EU

Input Image Requirements

Please ensure that you follow the below guidelines and requirements when scanning an image.

  • Recommended Formats: JPG

  • Supported Formats: JPG, PNG

  • Maximum Body size: 10MB

Using the Licence Plate EU API

To make a call to the Licence Plate EU API, create a POST Request and include the following shown in the below example:

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.anyline.com/v2/licenseplate/eu \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN' \
  --data '{image: "yourBase64Image"}'
Be sure to replace YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN with your actual access-token, and the "yourBase64Image" String with the blob for the image you wish to scan.

After the call has been sent, you will receive a result including a JSON File like the following example:

{
  "country_code": "DE",
  "region_code": null,
  "plate_identifier": "RO GK 3570",
  "plate_position": [[0.0965, 0.5026], [0.2913, 0.5388], [0.2913, 0.6050], [0.1007, 0.5663]],
  "field_confidences": {
    "country_code": 0.880,
    "region_code": null,
    "plate_identifier": 0.993,
    "plate_position": 0.880,
  }
}

And that’s it! You’ve successfully scanned an image using the Licence Plate EU API!

Scan capability overview

Example Licence Plate EU

The Anyline Licence Plate EU API currently supports
extraction of the following license plate information from EU regions:

  • Country Code

  • Region Code (for selected countries)

  • Plate Identifier

  • Plate Identifier Position

Output Format

The expected output format is following

Name Type

country_code

str, None

region_code

str, None

plate_identifier

str, None

plate_position

list[tuple[float, float]], None

field_confidences.country_code

float, None

field_confidences.region_code

float, None

field_confidences.plate_identifier

float, None

field_confidences.plate_position

float, None

 
 
 
 

Country Code

Example Country Code

The following countries are supported for automatic country detection provided that they use a blue euroband
(additional support for Switzerland’s coat of arms and non-blue eurobands in Iceland, UK, Ukraine).

  • (AL) Albania

  • (AT) Austria

  • (BE) Belgium

  • (BA) Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • (BG) Bulgaria

  • (BY) Belarus

  • (HR) Croatia

  • (CY) Cyprus

  • (CZ) Czech Republic

  • (DK) Denmark

  • (EE) Estonia

  • (FL) Falkland Islands

  • (FO) Faroe Islands

  • (FI) Finland

  • (FR) France

  • (GE) Georgia

  • (DE) Germany

  • (GI) Gibraltar

  • (GR) Greece

  • (HU) Hungary

  • (IS) Iceland

  • (IE) Ireland

  • (IT) Italy

  • (KS) Kosovo

  • (LV) Latvia

  • (LT) Lithuania

  • (LU) Luxembourg

  • (MT) Malta

  • (MD) Moldova

  • (ME) Montenegro

  • (NL) Netherlands

  • (MK) North Macedonia

  • (NO) Norway

  • (PL) Poland

  • (PT) Portugal

  • (RO) Romania

  • (RS) Serbia

  • (SK) Slovakia

  • (SI) Slovenia

  • (ES) Spain

  • (SE) Sweden

  • (CH) Switzerland

  • (TR) Turkey

  • (UA) Ukraine

  • (GB) United Kingdom

Output Format

The output of the Country Code provided in ISO-3661-1 alpha-2 standard.

Examples

DE
BA
GB
HR

Region Code (for selected countries)

Example Region Code

The Region Code provides informaiton for following countires:

  • France - Department Code (INSEE code)

  • Italy - Province Code

 
 
 
 

Output Format

For the cases where Region Code is supported, Region Code returned is in upper case format. Otherwise the field will be empty.
Supported characters 0-9, A-Z.

Examples on country region code

Type Example

France

44, 68, (EMPTY)

Italy

VA, MB, (EMPTY)

Other countries

(EMPTY)

Plate Identifier

Example Plate Identifier

The Plate Identifier returned by the Anyline Licence Plate EU API as is.

 

Output Format

The output of the Plate Identifier is in upper case format. Supported characters 0-9, A-Z, - and whitespace.

Examples

RC 435 DE
CP 559Y
FP 49 01
CU 63 293

Plate Identifier Position

Example possible visualisation for Plate Identifier Position

The Plate Identifier Position returned by the Anyline Licence Plate EU
API corresponds to 4 corners of the licence plate.

Output Format

The output of the Plate Identifier Position is a list of [X, Y] pairs, represneting 4 corner points
of the detected licence plate. Each [X, Y] pair corresponds to the position of the corner in normalized
coordinates in the range [0, 1]. In order to obtain absolute coordinates values of the Plate Identifier Position
should be multiplied by respectful width and height of the image, which was provided to the Anyline Licence Plate EU
API.

Examples

[[0.0965, 0.5026], [0.2913, 0.5388], [0.2913, 0.6050], [0.1007, 0.5663]]
[[0.1974, 0.3583], [0.3074, 0.3583], [0.3055, 0.3845], [0.1974, 0.3832]]

Limitations

  • Limited support for special characters

  • Limited support for non-standard mounted or bent license plates

  • Limited support for black license plates

  • Limited support for Temporary License Plates

  • Limited support for country detection on blue multi row license plates (e.g. Austrian dealer plates).

  • Limited support for non-standard license plates