Parkese ALPR
Read any Indian license plate in under 500ms
What it does
Most ALPR APIs were trained on US/EU plates and choke on anything Indian - they can't read Devanagari, miss BH-series formats, and return garbage on Hindi numerals. Parkese ALPR reads English, Hindi, and Marathi plates natively, auto-detects the script, and parses every plate into state + RTO district + series + number - validated against MoRTH rules. Sub-500ms response. 2,500 free scans, no signup. Curl it right now.
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