This document summarizes a student project on automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) using optical character recognition (OCR). The project aims to reduce crime by identifying vehicles. Students created a dataset of license plates and used the Tesseract OCR engine to recognize characters. The system workflow involves capturing license plate images, preprocessing them, extracting characters via OCR, and matching the results to the dataset. The project demonstrates applications for parking management, access control, toll collection and border security. It concludes the system could be improved with higher resolution cameras.