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I saw a plate scanner camera on Alibaba which led me down a rabbit hole.
https://guides.platerecognizer.com/
Sign up for a DEV account (free you get 2500 requests/second)
Set up a Raspberry Pi/computer next to a major road (i.e. the street my building faces)
Videotape every car that drives by
send the vehicle to the API (samples provided)
record the data that's returned from the API and save to a DB
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PROFIT!?!
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Nov 28, 2023, 07:49 AM
(This post was last modified: Nov 28, 2023, 07:50 AM by halburt.)
Disregarding the questionable value that this info would have, I feel like it would be trivially easy for law enforcement (or really anybody) to identify where you're located from the data collected.
Unless you're flying across the country and setting up this camera at multiple different locations, it would be an incredibly bad idea to gather this info for anything beyond personal use.
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(Nov 28, 2023, 07:49 AM)halburt Wrote: Disregarding the questionable value that this info would have, I feel like it would be trivially easy for law enforcement (or really anybody) to identify where you're located from the data collected.
Unless you're flying across the country and setting up this camera at multiple different locations, it would be an incredibly bad idea to gather this info for anything beyond personal use.
Yes, and yes. However I don't think it's actually "illegal". It just is a solution in need of a problem. Like tracking cars when there's a child that is kidnapped and they know the make or license plate of the car...
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(Dec 04, 2023, 01:07 AM)blackboar Wrote: Yes, and yes. However I don't think it's actually "illegal". It just is a solution in need of a problem. Like tracking cars when there's a child that is kidnapped and they know the make or license plate of the car...
Oh yeah, the act by itself isn't illegal. But generally speaking, it'll set off some yellow flags with law enforcement unless you have a justifiable purpose for gathering the resources.
What you're describing is already done by the police, so a civilian doing so encroaches into vigilantism.
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(Dec 04, 2023, 09:17 PM)halburt Wrote: (Dec 04, 2023, 01:07 AM)blackboar Wrote: Yes, and yes. However I don't think it's actually "illegal". It just is a solution in need of a problem. Like tracking cars when there's a child that is kidnapped and they know the make or license plate of the car...
Oh yeah, the act by itself isn't illegal. But generally speaking, it'll set off some yellow flags with law enforcement unless you have a justifiable purpose for gathering the resources.
What you're describing is already done by the police, so a civilian doing so encroaches into vigilantism.
Similar to downloading breaches on BF, they would have to somehow *know*.
Ideally I'd go back in time, start a multi-national company that sets up red-lights and install cameras in every one so I can track every car that passes through all the lights in Europe, North America and Asia. And by recording all license plates, I could help find anyone, anytime who drove a car.
Hacking the equipment (just across the street) would require... skill.
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Find or buy access to DBs is more cheaper and effect.
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But less local! Knowing who passes by my street is of more interest than buying a db of Mexicans...
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(Dec 14, 2023, 01:02 AM)blackboar Wrote: But less local! Knowing who passes by my street is of more interest than buying a db of Mexicans...
Agree. By the way, If you want to set-it up for yourself, there's opensource package like OpenALPR ( https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr) available
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What kind of information is returned by the API? Is it just OCR or does it enrich it with external data from somewhere? This forum account is currently banned. Ban Length: Permanent (N/A Remaining)
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(Feb 02, 2024, 09:49 PM)henel Wrote: What kind of information is returned by the API? Is it just OCR or does it enrich it with external data from somewhere?
An idea is easy. Signing up for a service is easy. But to write a program, even a basic POC required more attention and work than I've been willing to invest in this.
I do not yet know.
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