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The proposed method is based on a combination of morphological operations and edge detection techniques, along with the bounding box method for identifying and revealing license plate characters while removing unwanted artifacts such as dust and fog. The mathematical model of foggy images is presented and the sum of gradients of the image, which represents the visibility of the image, is improved. Previous works on license plate recognition have utilized non-intelligent pattern matching techniques. The proposed technique can be applied in a variety of settings, including traffic monitoring, parking management, and law enforcement, among others. The applied algorithm, unlike SOTA-based methods, does not need a huge set of training data and is implemented only by applying standard templates. 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