Character wheel reading meter end identification method and equipment for camera shooting direct-reading meter reader

The invention discloses a character wheel reading meter end identification method and equipment for a camera shooting direct-reading meter reader, relates to the technical field of remote automatic meter reading of metering instruments, and solves the technical problems that an existing meter reading system is high in power consumption, low in transmission speed and long in response time. The character wheel reading meter end identification method comprises a long template and a matching identification method, wherein the long template is a pre-manufactured gray level image; the matching recognition method comprises the following steps of character box positioning, image preprocessing, matching recognition and logic error correction. The equipment comprises a memory, a processor and a computer program which is stored in the memory and can run on the processor, the processor implements the steps of the identification method when executing the computer program, and the memory and the processor are arranged at a