EasyOCR can't detect 7 in number plate.

[PixelDews]

Why is EasyOCR excluding number 7 from the detection? Without fail, it keeps excluding 7. Is there any recommendation to fix this issue?

[Abecadarian]

My guess would be that the grey strip on the left hand side of the number plate is close enough to the '7' digit here that it treats the '7' as part of the strip.

It might help if you tried segmenting the image to find the corners of the licence plate and then using a perspective transformation to get a top down view - that would reduce parallax distortion, which may be partly to blame for the problem. You find out more https://pyimagesearch.com/2014/08/25/4-point-opencv-getperspective-transform-example/

Other things that might help is setting the allowlist parameter to only allow numbers ('0123456789'), and experimenting with the contrast and text detection parameters.

[masoudMZB]

I think there is 2 problem :

• text detection model (Craft) is not well trained for your test dataset and you need to finetune it. ( here text detection is the problem)
• text detection parameters are not properly set check these two and report the result