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Engineering notes, product thinking and field reports from building license plate recognition for the Gulf.

We read the Arabic row, not convert it — a Saudi plate returned as both an Arabic and a Latin reading that cross-check each other
FeaturedBenchmarks·29 July 2026·11 min read

Rebuilding Arabic plate reading for Saudi

106 frames from real traffic our system had never seen, read by a human, scored on the complete plate string the API returns. The Arabic row matches Latin on digits and edges ahead on letters — and plate width turned out to predict accuracy more than anything else we measured.

Abzal Assembekov

Abzal Assembekov

Founder, ANPR.software

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