Get image from PI camera and analyze it

[korenron]

Hello,
I'm trying to write a code for detecting license plate number ,
until now I took a saved image and did all the testing on it
I want to check the code "Live" - taking image automatically from PI camera

how do I do this ?

I have found this simple example

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from picamera import PiCamera import time camera = PiCamera() camera.resolution = (1280, 720) camera.vflip = True camera.contrast = 10 camera.image_effect = "watercolor" time.sleep(2) camera.capture("/home/pi/Pictures/img.jpg") print("Done.")

my question is how do I know I got something and need to analyze it ? and didn't take image of empty road ?
maybe to add a PIR sensor or something ? is this a good solution ?
do I run this part every 5 seconds ~ then what ?

Thanks ,