clarify replace rules in lpr docs

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Josh Hawkins 2025-12-03 14:17:41 -06:00
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### Normalization Rules
- **`replace_rules`**: List of regex replacement rules to normalize detected plates. These rules are applied sequentially. Each rule must have a `pattern` (which can be a string or a regex, prepended by `r`) and `replacement` (a string, which also supports [backrefs](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.sub) like `\1`). These rules are useful for dealing with common OCR issues like noise characters, separators, or confusions (e.g., 'O'→'0').
- **`replace_rules`**: List of regex replacement rules to normalize detected plates. These rules are applied sequentially and are applied _before_ the `format` regex, if specified. Each rule must have a `pattern` (which can be a string or a regex, prepended by `r`) and `replacement` (a string, which also supports [backrefs](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.sub) like `\1`). These rules are useful for dealing with common OCR issues like noise characters, separators, or confusions (e.g., 'O'→'0').
These rules must be defined at the global level of your `lpr` config.