International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition

The International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 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printed/handwritten text recognition, graphics analysis and recognition, document analysis, document understanding, historical documents and digital libraries, document based forensics, camera and video based scene text analysis.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:

Year	Country	City	Website
1991	France	Saint-Malo
1993	Japan	Tsukuba, Ibaraki
1995	Canada	Montreal
1997	Germany	Ulm
1999	India	Bangalore
2001	United States	Seattle
2003	Scotland	Edinburgh
2005	Korea	Seoul
2007	Brazil	Curitiba
2009	Spain	Barcelona	http://www.icdar2009.org/
2011	China	Peking	http://www.icdar2011.org/
2013	United States	Washington, D.C.	http://www.icdar2013.org/
2015	France	Nancy	http://2015.icdar.org/
2017	Japan	Kyoto	http://u-pat.org/ICDAR2017/
2019	Australia	Sydney	http://www.icdar2019.org/

See also

• International Association for Pattern Recognition