Quick context: SR-as-a-pre-filter for ALPR gets a lot of attention right now there's a whole ICPR 2026 competition track on low-res plate recognition; so we actually testing it on our production lpr data.
We tried that, wasn't a big lift to setup and tested. We used 1000 detections with at least 4 crops, and it made a bit of a difference but not much - our conclusion remains the same.