Research note from the recognizer-options query. fast-alpr v0.4.0 (MIT) — a swappable
YOLOv9-detector + CCT-OCR pipeline on ONNX Runtime, CPU-only and offline — fits the
decided vision-service architecture and is MIT end-to-end (code + published weights),
so the ANPR path may not need the scoped AGPL exception. Flags the open caveats:
verify model-weight provenance, and benchmark AL-plate accuracy (default global vs.
the 40+ country EU model). fast-alpr is plate-only, so the vehicle-verification job
stays ours to build. Decision kept open. Updates opencv-anpr-service (new "Recognizer
evaluation" section + licensing nuance), vision-service (open/next), index, log.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Xcm6ikLgGoCxxHrxtjkk5V