Tait Brown was annoyed at the Victoria Police who had spent $86 million Australian dollars on developing the BlueNet system which basically consists of an license-plate OCR which crosschecks against a car theft database.

Tait was so disgruntled as he thought he could easily replicate this system without spending millions and millions of tax dollars. And so he did. In only 57 lines of JavaScript, though, to be honest, there are many more lines of code hidden away in abstraction and APIs…

Anyway, he built a system that can identify license plates, read them, and should be able to cross check them with a criminal database.

I really liked reading about this project, so please do so if you’re curious via the links below:

Part 1: How I replicated an $86 million project in 57 lines of code

Part 2: Remember the $86 million license plate scanner I replicated?

Part X: the code on Github

Cover image via Medium via Freepik

• application
• automation
• deep learning
• javascript