International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
# 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printed/handwritten text recognition, graphics analysis and recognition, document analysis, document understanding, historical documents and digital libraries, document based forensics, camera and video based scene text analysis.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 | |
| 2011 | China | Peking | |
| 2013 | United States | Washington, D.C. | https://iapr.org/archives/icdar2013/ |
| 2015 | France | Nancy | https://iapr.org/archives/icdar2015/ |
| 2017 | Japan | Kyoto | https://iapr.org/archives/icdar2017/ |
| 2019 | Australia | Sydney | https://iapr.org/archives/icdar2019/ |
| 2021 | Switzerland | Lausanne | https://icdar2021.org/ |
| 2023 | United States | San Jose, CA | https://icdar2023.org/ |
