License plate OCR API
Read license plate numbers from vehicle photos for parking, access control and fleet logs.
Result
Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.
What makes license plates hard to read
- Motion blur, night shots and steep angles
- Characters like 0/O and 1/I that must be exact
- Plate formats that differ by country
What you can pull out
license-plate fields
{
"plate_number": "7ABC123",
"region": "California",
"country": "US",
"plate_type": "passenger"
}Best models for license plates
1Gemini FlashGeneral vision model with strong handwriting and layout understanding at a low price.
google/gemini-flash3 credits / page2GPTGeneral vision model. Good at messy scans and following extraction instructions.openai/gpt11 credits / page3ClaudeGeneral vision model with careful reading of long, dense documents.anthropic/claude14 credits / pageCall it from your code
curl https://api.ocrrouter.ai/v1/ocr \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OCRROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "google/gemini-flash",
"file_url": "https://example.com/invoice.pdf",
"format": "json"
}'