# How to read text from camera feed
**URL:** https://forums.openmv.io/t/how-to-read-text-from-camera-feed/10940
**Category:** Arduino Boards
**Created:** [April 25, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://forums.openmv.io/t/how-to-read-text-from-camera-feed/10940 "2025-04-25T19:04:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@isaac\_boyd](https://forums.openmv.io/u/isaac_boyd)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://forums.openmv.io/t/how-to-read-text-from-camera-feed/10940/1 "2025-04-25T19:04:25Z")
Hi,
I just wondering if you could read text from the live feed of a Nicla Vision? I was trying to make some kind of DIY dash cam for fun and I wanted to be able to read the license plate.
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### Author:  [@kwagyeman](https://forums.openmv.io/u/kwagyeman)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://forums.openmv.io/t/how-to-read-text-from-camera-feed/10940/2 "2025-04-25T19:17:50Z")
It doesn’t have the ability to do that. What folks are currently using it to do is automated gauge reading. In this case the camera is mounted looking right at a dial gauge or a numeric gauge.
General-purpose license plate detection requires much more powerful devices like our upcoming OpenMV AE3 and N6.
You can still use the Nicla though… but, the use case needs to be constrained. So, it could in theory decode letters on a license plate using a small CNN if the position/size of each letter is known using image classification.
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### Author:  [@isaac\_boyd](https://forums.openmv.io/u/isaac_boyd)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://forums.openmv.io/t/how-to-read-text-from-camera-feed/10940/3 "2025-04-25T19:36:41Z")
How are people reading gauges? I’ve seen it but I was wondering how they did it.
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### Author:  [@kwagyeman](https://forums.openmv.io/u/kwagyeman)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.openmv.io/t/how-to-read-text-from-camera-feed/10940/4 "2025-04-25T20:36:17Z")
Here’s the project: [Analog Meter Reading - Arduino Nicla Vision | Expert Projects](https://docs.edgeimpulse.com/experts/computer-vision-projects/analog-meter-reading-arduino-nicla-vision)
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### Author:  [@isaac\_boyd](https://forums.openmv.io/u/isaac_boyd)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://forums.openmv.io/t/how-to-read-text-from-camera-feed/10940/5 "2025-04-25T21:19:47Z")
Thanks!