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Patents
Section titled “Patents”The IRISOCR™ SDK 16 integrates the following patent-granted and patent-pending I.R.I.S. technologies.
Table 1. Patent-granted I.R.I.S. technologies
| Technology | Patent number |
|---|---|
| iHQC | US8068684; US8331706; US8666185; JP5501958; US8995780; EP2143039A2; BE1022166 |
| Operational projective correction (eigenpoints) | BE1022635; US8913836; JP6542230 |
| Operational projective correction (priority RANSAC) | BE1022630; US8897600 |
| Operational projective correction (multilevel elimination) | BE1022636; US8811751 |
| IC | US8411940 |
| Simultaneous deskew | BE1021013 |
| Asian OCR | US9058517; US9183636; US9311558; BE1025006; CN106462773B; CN106255979B; JP6609267; JP6693887B2; 1025502B1; 1025504B1; 1025503B1 |
| OCR Method | BE1022562; US9798943 |
| OCR voting | BE1024194; US9836646 |
| Document image quality assessment | BE1024836; US10395393 |
| HQOCR | GB2571530; BE1026039; GB2572386; BE1026159 |
| Automatic Undithering | BE1026095 |
| Full combination OCR | US11270143B2 |
Table 2. Patent-pending I.R.I.S. technologies
| Technology | Patent application number |
|---|---|
| HQOCR | CN201980006076.6; EP19711001.8; JP2020-523263; KR10-2020-7027906; US16/286438; EP19711002.6; US16/354030 |
| Automatic undithering | GB1803748.1; EP19706547.7; US16/292130 |
| Language identification | US16/845720;PCT/EP2021/059315 |
Trademarks
Section titled “Trademarks”The IRISOCR™ SDK is trademark of Image Recognition Integrated Systems S.A.
OCR (“Optical Character Recognition”), Linguistic technology, ICR (“Intelligent Character Recognition”) technology, MICR (“Magnetic Ink Character Recognition”) technology, BCR (“Bar Code Reading”) technology, OMR (Optical Mark Recognition), iHQC (“intelligent High Quality Compression”) technology and HQOCR (“High Quality OCR”) technology by I.R.I.S.
Document Generation by I.R.I.S.
All other products mentioned in this documentation are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Third-Party Software
Section titled “Third-Party Software”The IRISOCR™ SDK is built on proprietary I.R.I.S. technologies.
However, Open Source Software (OSS) or Commercial Products or Components may also be used in certain modules or extensions. A list with these components is given below.
Table 3. Open Source third-party components
| Open Source software | Module or extension | Version | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| libjpeg | Module ImageFormats | 9d 12-Jan-2020 | License: Custom Copyright © 2020, Thomas G. Lane, Guido Vollbeding. License details: see readme in distribution Home page |
| libpng | Module ImageFormats | 1.6.37 | License: Custom Copyright © 1998-2002, 2004, 2006-2017 Glenn Randers-Pehrson License details Home page |
| libtiff | Module ImageFormats | 4.3.0 | License: Custom Copyright © 1988-1996 Sam Leffler, Copyright © 1991-1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc. License details Home page |
| zlib | Module ImageFormats | 1.3.1 | License: Custom Copyright © 1995-2012 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler License details Home page |
| Module OCR | |||
| Module DocumentOutput | |||
| PDFium | Extension ImageFormats.PdfInput | Commit 821b731112 f6b6eb58f9a90a d117991330c8530f | License: 3-clause BSD License Copyright © 2014 PDFium Authors. License details Home page |
| Eigen | Module OCR | 3.3.4 compiled with flag EIGEN_MPL2_ONLY | License: MPL2 License details Home page |
| Caffe | Module OCR | N/A | License: BSD 2-Clause License details Home page |
| glog | Module OCR | 0.3.3 | License: Google free license License details Home page |
| gflags | Module OCR | 2.1.2 | License: Google free license License details Home page |
| protobuf | Module OCR | 3.5.0 | License: Google free license License details Home page |
| boost | Module OCR | 1.38.0 | License: boost software license License details |
| 1.56.0 | |||
| boost.extension | Module OCR | N/A | License: boost software license License details Home page |
| cld2 | Module OCR | N/A | License: Apache 2.0 License details Home page |
| harfbuzz | Module OCR | 2.3.1 | License: Old MIT license License details Home page |
| tinyAES | Module OCR | N/A | Public domain Home page |
| Module DocumentOutput | |||
| bidi.cpp | Module OCR | 26 | Public domain Home page |
| Minizip | Module DocumentOutput | 1.1 | License: Custom Copyright © 1998-2010 Gilles Vollant License details |
| pugixml | iDRS Kernel | 1.11 | License: MIT License Copyright © 2006-2020, by Arseny Kapoulkine License details Home page |
| Module DocumentOutput | |||
| libdmtx | Extension Barcode.2D | 0.7.5 | License: Custom Copyright © 2005-2011 Mike Laughton and others License details Home page |
| Zxing | Extension Barcode.2D | commit 6b3cbe0 on Nov 22, 2016 | License: Apache 2.0 Copyright © 2013 ZXing authors License details Home page |
| opencv | Extension Barcode.2D | 3.4.17 | License: 3-clause BSD License Copyright: see license details License details Home page |
| UTF8-CPP | iDRS Kernel | 4.0.1 | License: boost software license Copyright © 2006 Nemanja Trifunovic License details Home page |
Table 4. Commercial third-party components
| Commercial software | Module or extension | Version | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for Linux | Extension Barcode.Advanced | 9.3.1.18 | License: Commercial Copyright © 2023 Softek Software Ltd. All Rights Reserved License details Home page |
| Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for Windows | Extension Barcode.Advanced | 9.3.1.18 | License: Commercial Copyright © 2023 Softek Software Ltd. All Rights Reserved License details Home page |