Tesseract to Verify Already Expecting Text

[ak...@cronj.com]

I need to verify if a vehicle at a gate is the one I'm expecting it to be i.e. the for the vehicle image I intend to run OCR on, I already know the licence plate number which I'm expecting, just need to verify that it's the same,

Ideally this task should ideally be way simpler/efficient for any OCR to do than actually try to recognize texts from scratch. 

My question is there a way I can tell Tesseract OCR the expected text and it just gives me the match score and based on which my application can take the decision?

[ak...@cronj.com]

Bump.

Won't anyone know what is the best parameters to pass to tesseract for such a case where expected text is already known?

[Shashank]

I don't think it is significantly different to just regular OCR. Look at Tensorflow if you are interested in the comparision/classifying game.