The Common OCR Service Interface. COSI is an API that allows developpers to easily bring OCR (Optical CharacterRecognition) capabilities to image processing applications. COSI supports existing OCR tools such as Tesseract, GOCR or GNU Ocrad.
openlpr is a open source project to implement license plate recognition in Win32 and Linux platform. It will provide the basic image processing to locate plate and character split and a neural network design to recognize character.