Yes, Carmen^® offers country-independent recognition of not only Latin characters, but also Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese, Korean, Thai and many more, as well as reflective, non-reflective, personalized and special interest plates that are typical in many US states.

Technically and legally (as there is no such thing as camera license) yes, you can connect any IP camera with any license. We recommend using IP cameras made especially for LPR purposes, for example our own camera portfolio.

Carmen^® is a world leader in recognition rate, but the rate may depend on many factors, such as image quality, general condition of the license plates, engine type, etc.
For example, in Hungary, our ANPR engine with our cameras used on most of the highways reached a remarkably high, unique percentage of recognition rate which is higher than 98.5 %.

This can vary by license types depending on 1) how many CPU cores your application uses (single, dual or quad core) and also 2) how many video streams you would like to process parallel (1, 2, 4 or 8 streams).

Carmen^® ANPR Stream is sold with a perpetual license, which means it never expires. It also comes with a limited lifetime software update*, which entitles the purchaser to download software updates throughout the product’s lifetime.
*LPR engine libraries are excluded, as they are available on a yearly-subscription basis. Please review our End User License Agreement (link) for more information on the update policy.