In order to avoid the impact of low‐resolution blurred images on the recognition of license plates, a spatial and channel dual attention network (RSCAN) based on residual network is proposed to recover blurred license plate images. RSCAN adds a spatial attention mechanism to the RCAN (residual channel attention) network, and introduces a new channel attention mechanism to train and test the network through a self‐made license plate data set. The RSCAN network is compared with the conventional processed pictures, SRCNN (super‐resolution) network, and RCAN network. The test license plate pictures are used for comparison experiments, and the model evaluation is carried out through the peak signal‐to‐noise ratio (PSNR) and structural similarity (SSIM), respectively, 30.312/0.889. The experimental results show that the license plate images processed by RSCAN network achieve the best results.