# Plate Recognizer

Plate Recognizer offers Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) solutions for processing images and videos to detect and decode vehicle license plates.

- **Category:** artificial intelligence
- **Auth:** API_KEY
- **Composio Managed App Available?** N/A
- **Tools:** 2
- **Triggers:** 0
- **Slug:** `PLATERECOGNIZER`
- **Version:** 20260307_00

## Tools

### Read License Plate

**Slug:** `PLATERECOGNIZER_READ_LICENSE_PLATE`

Tool to read license plates from images with confidence scores and optional vehicle details. Use when you need to extract license plate text, region information, or analyze vehicle attributes from images.

#### Input Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|-----------|------|----------|-------------|
| `mmc` | boolean | No | Predict vehicle make, model, orientation, color, and year. Set to true if this feature is enabled on your account. Default is false. |
| `config` | object | No | Additional engine configuration as JSON. Options include detection_rule, detection_mode, region strict mode, thresholds, and mode (fast/redaction). See API documentation for detailed configuration options. |
| `upload` | string | No | File to upload for license plate recognition. Can be a Optional if upload_url is provided. |
| `regions` | array | No | Match license plate pattern of specific states/countries. Accepts multiple country/state codes. Examples: ['us-ca', 'gb', 'de']. See API documentation for full list of region codes. |
| `camera_id` | string | No | Unique camera identifier for tracking purposes. Useful for identifying which camera captured the image. |
| `direction` | boolean | No | Predict vehicle direction of travel in degrees. Requires mmc=true. Default is false. |
| `timestamp` | string | No | ISO 8601 timestamp in UTC indicating when the image was captured. Example: 2019-08-19T13:11:25 |
| `upload_url` | string | No | URL of the image to analyze for license plate recognition. Alternative to upload parameter. Example: https://example.com/car-image.jpg |

#### Output

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|-----------|------|----------|-------------|
| `data` | string | Yes | Data from the action execution |
| `error` | string | No | Error if any occurred during the execution of the action |
| `successful` | boolean | Yes | Whether or not the action execution was successful or not |

### Snapshot Get Statistics

**Slug:** `PLATERECOGNIZER_SNAPSHOT_GET_STATISTICS`

Tool to retrieve usage statistics for the current month's Snapshot API recognition calls. Use after making Snapshot API calls to monitor monthly usage.

#### Output

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|-----------|------|----------|-------------|
| `data` | string | Yes | Data from the action execution |
| `error` | string | No | Error if any occurred during the execution of the action |
| `successful` | boolean | Yes | Whether or not the action execution was successful or not |