Abstract: Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) has many applications as (highway electronic toll collection, Police applications, Average Speed Enforcement, Bus Lane Enforcement, Parking Management Systems, Journey Time Systems, detection of stolen vehicles, etc.).It is worth mentioning that there is a scarcity in researches that introduce an automatic number plate recognition which depends on Arabic language. In this study, a smart and simple algorithm is presented for Egyptian vehicle’s number plate recognition system. The proposed algorithm consists of two major phases: plate region extraction and plate recognition. For extracting the plate region, edge detection algorithms and the alignment algorithm are used. And finally DCT or LDA is used for plate recognition.