a stand - alone computer - camera system capable of extracting car - plate information . this is achieved by using an on - board computer in order to analyze the video stream recorded by the camera sensor , and can be used with any type of camera sensor . the system features specific characteristics making it extremely fast and able to catch plates of cars moving at high - speed . the special algorithms incorporated in this system , are specially implemented , in order to be able to be ported on an embedded computer system , which has usually lower capabilities in terms of processing power and memory than a general - purpose computer .