Recognition of Arabic License Plates using NN

License plate recognition (LPR) systems are a key to many traffic related applications such as road traffic monitoring or parking lots access control. We propose an automatic license plate recognition system for GCC license plates. The system presents an algorithm for the extraction of license plate and recognition of Arabic characters and numerals. Preliminary work on the system has been investigated on real images of vehicles captured under various illumination conditions. Real time LPR plays a major role in automatic monitoring of traffic rules and maintaining law enforcement on public roads. The automatic identification of vehicles by the contents of their license plates is important in private transport applications.