Remove spaces, ".", and "-" from ALPR

modules/ANSLPR/ANSLPR_OCR.h

@@ -191,6 +191,23 @@ namespace ANSCENTER
         // characters are collapsed and leading/trailing spaces trimmed.
         [[nodiscard]] static std::string StripPlateArtifacts(const std::string& text);
 
+        // Final-pass post-processing: strip the visual separators that some
+        // countries put between plate sections — spaces, periods, hyphens —
+        // so the emitted plate string is a contiguous alphanumeric token.
+        // Examples:
+        //     "84-F1 273.36"  →  "84F127336"
+        //     "54-0L 7564"    →  "540L7564"
+        //     "59-N2 363.25"  →  "59N236325"
+        //     "東京 500あ12-34" → "東京500あ1234"
+        // Handles ASCII space/period/hyphen-minus plus the common Unicode
+        // variants (NBSP, ideographic space, em/en dashes, full-width
+        // period and hyphen, JP prolonged-sound mark) so JP-OCR output
+        // is normalised the same way as Latin output.
+        // Applied BEFORE the ALPRChecker voter so voting + locking both
+        // operate on the canonical stripped form, and the skip-when-locked
+        // path inherits stripped output without a second strip site.
+        [[nodiscard]] static std::string StripPlateSeparators(const std::string& text);
+
         // Run recognizer-only on a tight crop of the left portion of the
         // bottom half, trying three vertical offsets to absorb row-split
         // inaccuracies.  Returns the first non-empty result that contains