---
title: "Plate Recognizer integration for LuumenAI"
url: "https://www.luumen.ai/integrations/plate-recognizer/"
entity: SoftwareIntegration
category: "AI & automation"
audience: "SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, IT operations"
---

# Plate Recognizer integration for LuumenAI

Read license plates from images and track your Snapshot API usage

## What LuumenAI can do with Plate Recognizer

LuumenAI connects to Plate Recognizer with an API token and exposes 2 tools (2 read-only). Every tool is read-only, so it can answer questions from Plate Recognizer but cannot change anything in it.

## Key facts

- Authentication: API token
- Tools available: 2 tools (2 read-only)
- Plan: available on all plans
- Category: AI & automation

## About Plate Recognizer with LuumenAI

Point Luumen at an image and get the plate back, with confidence scores and optional vehicle details, using PLATERECOGNIZER_READ_LICENSE_PLATE. Check where the month's recognition volume stands with PLATERECOGNIZER_SNAPSHOT_GET_STATISTICS. Both are read-only, so answers come back immediately. Connected with an API key.

## Example tools

Read-only (2 in total):

- `PLATERECOGNIZER_READ_LICENSE_PLATE` — Read license plates from images with confidence scores and optional vehicle details.
- `PLATERECOGNIZER_SNAPSHOT_GET_STATISTICS` — Retrieve usage statistics for the current month's Snapshot API recognition calls.

## Frequently asked questions

### How does LuumenAI connect to Plate Recognizer?

Authorize once with API token. Luumen lists the scopes each action needs before you approve the connection, and credentials never appear in the chat.

### Can LuumenAI change things in Plate Recognizer on its own?

No. Every one of the 2 tools is read-only, so LuumenAI can answer questions from Plate Recognizer but cannot change anything in it.

### Is there an audit trail?

Every call to Plate Recognizer is recorded with the actor, the input, and the result.

Full page: https://www.luumen.ai/integrations/plate-recognizer/