Content aware and reading a license plate

[bcraun]

At Adobe Max last year during either one of the sneak peeks or a general session, someone showed a very cool feature.

It was a photo of a cars license plate that was shot at an angle and could not be read. They then selected it and stretched it out where the numbers could be read.

I can't remember what exactly they did, and I cant find the video of it online. Can anyone help me find this?

Thanks.

[cyberwasp]

could you be mistaking content aware with shake reduction filter?

[Derek Cross]

Just to be realistic, whatever recovery technique you use will depend on the pixel quality in the image. If there's no or little pixels it doesn't matter what you use, you won't recover the number.

[bcraun]

Yeah, I know that it isn't a perfect science.... but I'm just trying to remember what was shown during the demo at Adobe Max.

[Terri_Stevens · Accepted solution]

I don't recall that demonstration, but you certainly can use Perspective Crop(it's hidden under the crop tool button) to take a number plate at an angle and straighten it. I don't think it has any AI though to read the plate through OCR.

Terri

[WILDCAT54]

Im thinking they are talking about this as well