Car License Plate Detection & OCR with Streamlit (YOLOv8, PaddleOCR)

• Built a real-time vehicle license plate detection and recognition system using YOLOv8 for detection and

PaddleOCR for text extraction.

• Achieved 98.8% detection accuracy (mAP@50) on 24k+ annotated frames with reliable end-to-end OCR

performance.

• Deployed as an interactive Streamlit app supporting live video input, automatic cropping, logging, and

confidence filtering.

• Tools Used: Python, YOLOv8 (Ultralytics), PaddleOCR, Streamlit, OpenCV