From baf65988cb4766daeea584ef627e8c2011277d88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marius Gavrilescu <marius@ieval.ro>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 21:35:17 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Overload stringify in PlateResult.pm

---
 lib/Image/OpenALPR/PlateResult.pm | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/Image/OpenALPR/PlateResult.pm b/lib/Image/OpenALPR/PlateResult.pm
index 3fcca2d..e06a3e9 100644
--- a/lib/Image/OpenALPR/PlateResult.pm
+++ b/lib/Image/OpenALPR/PlateResult.pm
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ use 5.014000;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
+use overload '""' => sub { shift->plate }, fallback => 1;
 use parent qw/Class::Accessor::Fast/;
 
 our $VERSION = '0.001';
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ Image::OpenALPR::PlateResult - a license plate, as identified by OpenALPR
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
   my $plate = $alpr->recognise('t/example.jpg');
+  say $plate;             # ZP36709
   say $plate->plate;      # ZP36709
   say $plate->confidence; # 92.373634
   my @coords     = $plate->coordinates; # [306, 351], [476, 351], [476, 384], [306, 384]
@@ -53,7 +55,8 @@ identified by OpenALPR. It offers the following methods:
 =item $plate->B<plate>
 
 The plate number that has the highest confidence value (likelihood of
-being correct).
+being correct). An object of this class will stringify to the return
+value of this method.
 
 =item $plate->B<confidence>
 
-- 
2.39.2