The document describes a student project to develop a car recognition system using MATLAB. The system aims to detect and recognize car number plates using image processing and optical character recognition algorithms. A group of three students divided the work, with one student writing the Matlab code, another interfacing the system with a microcontroller, and the third building the hardware. The document outlines the workflow and basic modules of the system, including license plate localization, character segmentation, and character recognition using template matching in Matlab. It also discusses some problems faced with the Matlab-based system.