Car license plate recognition system is an image processing technology used to identify vehicles by capturing their Car License Plates. The car license plate recognition technology is also known as automatic number-plate recognition, automatic vehicle identification, car license plate recognition or optical character recognition for cars. In Malaysia, as the number of vehicle is increasing rapidly nowadays, a pretty great number of vehicle on the road has brought about the considerable demands of car license plate recognition system. Car license plate recognition system can be implemented in electronic parking payment system, highway toll-fee system, traffic surveillance system and as police enforcement tools. Additionally, car license plate recognition system technology also has potential to be combined with various techniques in other different fields like biology, aerospace and so on to achieve the goal of solving some specialized problems.

翻译：车辆牌照识别系统是一种通过捕获车辆牌照来识别车辆的图像处理技术。该技术也称为自动车牌识别、自动车辆识别、车辆牌照识别或汽车光学字符识别。在马来西亚，随着当前车辆数量急剧增长，道路上相当庞大的车辆数量带来了对车辆牌照识别系统的巨大需求。车辆牌照识别系统可应用于电子停车缴费系统、高速公路收费系统、交通监控系统以及作为警方执法工具。此外，车辆牌照识别系统技术还有潜力与生物学、航空航天等其他不同领域的多种技术相结合，以实现解决某些专门问题的目标。