Plate Recognizer MCP server

Connect Plate Recognizer to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot and any other MCP client, for your whole team. Metorial adds security, governance, and tracing, and gives everyone one Magic MCP URL to connect.

What you can do with the Plate Recognizer MCP server

Ask your agent in plain language. Each of these maps to a real tool on the server.

  • Use the get usage statistics tool in Plate Recognizer
  • Use the blur plates and faces tool in Plate Recognizer
  • Use the recognize license plate tool in Plate Recognizer
  • Use the recognize boat id tool in Plate Recognizer
  • Use the recognize vin tool in Plate Recognizer
  • Use the recognize trailer id tool in Plate Recognizer

Supported Tools

get_usage

Get Usage Statistics

Get the number of API calls made during the current billing period. Returns usage counts, total allowed calls, and reset date for Snapshot, OCR, VIN, and TrailerID products.

blur_image

Blur Plates and Faces

DEPRECATED — use `blur_image_file` instead. Blur license plates and/or faces in an image. Returns the blurred image as base64-encoded data along with detection coordinates for all found plates and faces. Configurable blur intensity on a scale of 1-10 for both plates and faces independently.

recognize_plate

Recognize License Plate

Read license plates from an image. Submit an image URL or base64-encoded image to detect and decode up to 5 license plates, including vehicle type, make/model, color, and orientation. Optionally specify regions to improve accuracy, or enable vehicle detection mode to find vehicles without visible plates.

recognize_boat

Recognize Boat ID

Read boat registration numbers from images. Extracts boat identification numbers from vessel images for port security, marina management, and maritime enforcement.

recognize_vin

Recognize VIN

DEPRECATED — use `recognize_text` instead. Extract a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) from an image. Submit an image of a VIN label, sticker, or windshield to decode the 17-character VIN code with confidence scores.

recognize_trailer

Recognize Trailer ID

Extract trailer identification numbers from images. Reads trailer IDs from images of commercial trailers with high accuracy.

recognize_usdot

Recognize USDOT Number

Read USDOT (US Department of Transportation) numbers from images of trucks and commercial vehicles. Handles blurry, low-resolution, and angled captures.

recognize_container

Recognize Shipping Container

Read shipping container identification codes from images. Extracts owner code, serial/registration number, and check digit from standard ISO 6346 container markings. Handles blurry, dark, angled, and shadowy images.

recognize_text

Recognize Text Identifiers

Extract a VIN, trailer ID, odometer reading, shipping container information, or boat registration number from an image using the current OCR service.

list_licenses

List Account Licenses

List licenses owned by the connected account for a provider product type, including license codes, configuration, expiry, and usage status.

blur_image_file

Blur Plates and Faces to a File

Blur license plates and faces and prepare the processed image for download. Returns image metadata and detection coordinates. Detection-only responses remain successful when the provider produces no file.

Connect Plate Recognizer to your AI client

Every client uses the same Magic MCP URL, and so does any other MCP client. Add it once and sign in with SSO.

  1. Enable Plate Recognizer in Metorial. In your Metorial portal, enable the Plate Recognizer MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.
  2. Add a custom connector. Open Customize, then Connectors. Select Add, then Custom, then Web.
  3. Paste your Metorial MCP URL. Name it Metorial, paste your Magic MCP URL (<your-magic-mcp-url>) and continue.
  4. Sign in. Select Add and sign in to load Plate Recognizer tools.

Run Plate Recognizer through the Metorial gateway

One governed layer for every app your agents reach, not a separate connector per tool.

  • Give Plate Recognizer and every other app to your whole team through one MCP gateway, behind your SSO.
  • Scope which teams and agents can use Plate Recognizer tools with role-based access control, and trace every call.
  • Prefer to run it yourself? Metorial is open source and self-hostable.

More integrations teams use with Plate Recognizer

GitHub

Manage repositories, issues, and pull requests. Create and configure branches, star repositories, review code, and merge changes. Automate CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions, manage workflow runs, secrets, and artifacts. Track issues with labels, milestones, and assignees. Search across code, repositories, issues, and users. Manage organizations, teams, and memberships. Create and manage projects, gists, packages, deployments, and environments. Access security alerts including code scanning, secret scanning, and Dependabot alerts. Read and write file contents in repositories. Manage webhooks, notifications, and codespaces.

Salesforce

Manage CRM data including Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities, Cases, and custom objects. Create, read, update, and delete records. Query data using SOQL and search across objects using SOSL. Perform bulk data operations for large-scale imports, exports, and migrations. Execute composite requests to batch multiple operations in a single API call. Access analytics, reports, and dashboards. Manage files and attachments associated with records. Interact with Chatter feeds, posts, and groups for social collaboration. Manage org metadata including custom objects, fields, layouts, and workflows. Query data using GraphQL for precise data retrieval across related objects.

Sharepoint

Manage SharePoint sites, document libraries, lists, and files. Create, read, update, and delete lists and list items with custom columns. Resolve site users to numeric Person/Group LookupId values. Upload, download, move, copy, and version files in document libraries. Search across sites, files, folders, lists, and list items using Microsoft Search. Manage permissions at site, list, and item levels with granular access control. Define and manage content types and site columns. Retrieve site properties and search for sites across Microsoft 365.

Airtable

Create, read, update, and delete records in Airtable bases and tables. Manage base schemas including creating tables and fields. Filter records using formulas, sort by fields, and scope queries to specific views. Upsert records to find, create, or update in a single call. Upload attachments to records, read and write record comments, list accessible bases, and receive real-time base change events through webhooks.

Sentry

Track, manage, and resolve application errors and performance issues. List, query, and bulk-update issues and error events with filters like status, assignment, and tags. Create and manage releases, associate commits, and upload source maps. Configure issue alert rules and metric alert rules with notification actions. Set up cron monitors to detect missed or failed scheduled jobs. Build custom dashboards with configurable widgets. Run ad-hoc Discover queries across errors and transactions for performance analysis. Manage organizations, teams, projects, and members. Provision users via SCIM. Access session replay data.

Bitbucket

Manage Git repositories, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines on Bitbucket Cloud. Create, fork, and configure repositories within workspaces and projects. Create, review, approve, merge, and decline pull requests with inline code comments. Browse source code, list commits, and manage branches and tags. Trigger, monitor, and manage Bitbucket Pipelines. List workspace members, configure repository default reviewers and branch restrictions, create and manage repository webhooks, and search code across repositories.

Technical notes for Plate Recognizer

Recognize license plates and vehicle attributes in still images. Extract VINs, trailer IDs, odometers, shipping container markings, USDOT numbers, and boat registration numbers. Blur plates and faces, download processed images, and inspect usage and account licenses.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about connecting Plate Recognizer to AI agents with Metorial.

  1. How many tools does the Plate Recognizer MCP server have?
    The Plate Recognizer MCP server exposes 11 tools, including Get Usage Statistics, Blur Plates and Faces, Recognize License Plate. Each one is governed and traced through Metorial.
  2. Plate Recognizer exposes tools your agents call on demand; it does not publish event triggers yet. Everything still runs through one governed MCP URL.
  3. Any MCP client, including VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, OpenCode and Grok. Each one reaches the Plate Recognizer MCP server through the same Metorial URL.
  4. Use role-based access control to decide which teams, users, and agents can use Plate Recognizer and which of its tools they can call.
  5. Yes. Metorial is open source, so you can run the Plate Recognizer MCP server yourself or use the hosted gateway.

Connect Plate Recognizer to production AI agents

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