International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition


The International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition is an international academic conference which is held every two years in a different city. 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printed/handwritten text recognition, graphics analysis and recognition, document analysis, document understanding, historical documents and digital libraries, document based forensics, camera and video based scene text analysis.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 is held every second year since 1991. The host country changes every time and the conference has taken place on four different continents so far:
YearCountryCityWebsite
1991 FranceSaint-Malo
1993 JapanTsukuba, Ibaraki
1995 CanadaMontreal
1997 GermanyUlm
1999 IndiaBangalore
2001 United StatesSeattle
2003 ScotlandEdinburgh
2005 KoreaSeoul
2007 BrazilCuritiba
2009 SpainBarcelonahttp://www.icdar2009.org/
2011 ChinaPekinghttp://www.icdar2011.org/
2013 United StatesWashington, D.C.http://www.icdar2013.org/
2015 FranceNancyhttp://2015.icdar.org/
2017 JapanKyotohttp://u-pat.org/ICDAR2017/
2019 AustraliaSydneyhttp://www.icdar2019.org/
2021 SwitzerlandMontreux-