The International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) is an international academic conference, sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition. The conference held annually, each time in a different country. It is about character and symbol recognition, printed/handwritten text recognition, graphics analysis and recognition, document analysis, document understanding, historical documents and digital libraries, document based forensics, camera and video based scene text analysis.

History

ICDAR was held every second year between 1991 and 2023. It then transitioned to be an annual conference. The host country changes every time and the conference has taken place on five different continents so far. An attempt is made to rotate around the world between Europe-Africa, Asia-Australia and the Americas - depending on the availability of hosts.

YearCountryCityWebsite
1991France FranceSaint-Malo
1993Japan JapanTsukuba, Ibaraki
1995Canada CanadaMontreal
1997Germany GermanyUlm
1999India IndiaBangalore
2001United States United StatesSeattle
2003Scotland ScotlandEdinburgh
2005Korea KoreaSeoul
2007Brazil BrazilCuritiba
2009Spain SpainBarcelona
2011China ChinaPeking
2013United States United StatesWashington, D.C.
2015France FranceNancy
2017Japan JapanKyoto
2019Australia AustraliaSydney
2021Switzerland SwitzerlandLausanne
2023United States United StatesSan Jose, CA
2024Greece GreeceAthens
2025China ChinaWuhan
2026Austria AustriaVienna
2027Malaysia MalaysiaKuala Lumpur

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