Number Plate Detection

In this project we are going to detect russian number plate

import cv2
import numpy as np

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nPlateCascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier("Resources/haarcascade_russian_plate_number.xml")
minArea = 500
color = (255,0,255)
count = 0
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cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
cap.set(3, 640)     #width
cap.set(4, 480)     #height
cap.set(10, 150)    #brightness




while True:
    success, img = cap.read()
    imgGray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
    numberPlates = nPlateCascade.detectMultiScale(imgGray, 1.1, 4)

    for (x, y, w, h) in numberPlates:
        area = w*h
        if area > minArea:
            cv2.rectangle(img, (x, y), (x + w, y + h), (255, 0, 255), 2)
            cv2.putText(img, "numberPlate", (x, y-5), cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_COMPLEX_SMALL, 1, color, 2)
            imgRoi = img[y:y+h, x:x+w]
            cv2.imshow("ROI", imgRoi)
    cv2.imshow("Result", img)
    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('s'):
        cv2.imwrite("Resources/Scanned/NumberPlate_"+str(count)+ ".jpg", imgRoi)
        cv2.rectangle(img, (0, 100), (640, 300), (0, 255, 0), cv2.FILLED)
        cv2.putText(img, "Scan Saved", (150, 265), cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_DUPLEX, 2, (0,0,255), 2)
        cv2.imshow("Result", img)
        cv2.waitKey(500)
        count += 1