  Nowadays in developing or developed countries, the Intelligent Transportation
System (ITS) technology has attracted so much attention to itself. License
Plate Recognition (LPR) systems have many applications in ITSs, such as the
payment of parking fee, controlling the traffic volume, traffic data
collection, etc. This paper presents a new and fast method for license plate
extraction based on edge analysis. our proposed method consist of four stage,
which are edge detection, non-useable edge and noise removing, edge analysis
and morphology-based license plate extraction. In the result part, the proposed
algorithm is applied on vehicle database and the accuracy rate reached 98%.
From the experimental results it is shown that the proposed method gives fairly
acceptable level of accuracy for practical license plate recognition system.
