Add OCR to object detection

Hello!

I followed the tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuZtUMEiKWY&ab_channel=Roboflow on my custom trains dataset (Sign in to Roboflow). My task is to create a model to detect trains number plates and deploy it on a mobile application. I am currently stuck with adding OCR to my object detection model, so my mobile app application only recognizes the number plate itself. Could you please help me with that? I am new at machine learning and even coding, and it would be great.

Hi @Alina_Andreeva

An object detection model learns to detect specific objects that you β€œteach” it to when you give it annotations via training data.

It sounds like you trained your model to detect the license plate itself. Running OCR on it would be a different process.

On the Roboflow forums, we only have the capacity to provide support for our product, but license plate detection is a very common use case and there are many resources online, including several of our blogs (like this one) which walk you through the steps required.

Hope this helps