{"id":29024,"date":"2020-03-24T14:35:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T13:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovagroupbcn.com\/?p=29024\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:45:00","slug":"countries-ocr5-worlwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovagroupbcn.com\/en\/blog\/parking\/countries-ocr5-worlwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 Countries Recognized by OCR: Map, Alphabets and Use Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SIRAM OCR<\/a>, our deep learning-based license plate recognition engine, today recognizes license plates from more than 100 countries acro<\/strong>Rather than just listing countries, it’s worth looking at SIRAM OCR’s actual coverage by continent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continent<\/strong><\/td>Countries recognized<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>
Europe<\/td>49<\/td><\/tr>
Americas<\/td>22<\/td><\/tr>
Asia<\/td>18<\/td><\/tr>
Africa<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
Oceania<\/td>3<\/td><\/tr>
Total<\/td>+107<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Europe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Europe has the widest coverage, including virtually all EU member states plus several countries outside the bloc: Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, the whole Eastern European bloc (Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, among others), and microstates such as Andorra, Monaco or Gibraltar. The differences among European countries alone justify a robust engine: single- or two-row formats, EU color bands, or non-Latin alphabets such as Cyrillic in Belarus and Ukraine, or Greek in Greece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Americas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With 22 supported countries, coverage across the Americas ranges from the United States (with state-level variations) to Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. The Americas add an extra challenge: in many countries, each state or province issues its own series, with different typography and markings within a single country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asia<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Asia accounts for 18 countries in SIRAM’s coverage, including the United Arab Emirates (with distinct formats per emirate, such as Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah or Ajman), Georgia and Azerbaijan. It’s in Asia and the Middle East where international recognition becomes especially demanding, due to Arabic and Latin alphabets coexisting on the same plate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Africa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With 15 countries, including Morocco as one of the most established markets, Africa combines European-influenced formats with Arabic characters across North Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oceania<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Oceania’s 3 countries are the most recent addition to the engine, reflecting OCR’s ongoing process of expanding coverage.Plut\u00f4t que de nous limiter \u00e0 une simple liste, voici la r\u00e9partition r\u00e9elle de la couverture de SIRAM OCR par continent :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AMERICA: 22 | EUROPE: 49 | AFRICA: 18 | ASIA: 13 | OCEANIA: 3 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognizing international alphabets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is one of the aspects almost no manufacturer explains in detail, yet it’s decisive for any international recognition project. The OCR engine doesn’t just have to read Latin numbers and letters: where the country is supported, it can also work with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n