Does anyone know of an API for Automatic Number Plate Recognition? I just want to supply a picture and want to get back the Number Plate along with possible what country it is from. The country is only optional. Can be paid API. Thanks.
I don't think you'll find someone that specific. What you'll probably want to do is use an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) library. PHP isn't the best language for something like this - you could try Googling it, but you'll have better luck with a language like Java, Python or C++.
If he's making a web service and you advise against PHP, he should probably check out Ruby on Rails or Django. To answer OP's question, I know of no such API but OCR is probably better anyway.
Well I mean, you can still build the web service in PHP and just use another language for the OCR. On large scale projects (built over a period of 2-3 months), I always tend to use 2-3 languages which interact with each other through various means.