From: Tiddy Ogg 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: For Tim - DDA
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:25:19 +0000

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:30:21 +0000, Jonathan Bryce
 wrote:

>Tim wrote:
>
>> Ermm, it *is* possible.  The London congestion-charging
>> system takes pictures ("graphics") from cameras and converts
>> part into the ("plain-text") licence-plate of the car passing by.
>
>At the same time, the rules were changed to require a specific font on your
>number plate to make it easier for these cameras to read the plates.  We
>are not yet at the stage where computers can recognise everything that it
>put their way.
Especially when they are deliberately obscured.  There is scanning
software, optical character recognition, and maybe it's possible to
download this particular page and convert it to te xt thusly, but
editing it, which here is required, will be impossible.

Tiddy Ogg.
http://www.tiddyogg.co.uk