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Devanagari license plate OCR on unconstrained Nepali street photos. Frontier LLMs struggle, and a specialised pipeline does better.

Building an ALPR pipeline for Nepali plates: Devanagari script, 2–3 stacked rows, hand-painted and embossed variants, three plate generations on the road at once. Out-of-sample street photos (never in training). Same image and prompt to GPT-5.6 Luna and Claude Sonnet 5 as a baseline: both misread c…

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  1. 2026-09-30 10:20 · r/computervision
    Devanagari license plate OCR on unconstrained Nepali street photos. Frontier LLMs struggle, and a specialised pipeline does better.

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