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printed/handwritten text recognition, graphics analysis and recognition, document analysis, document understanding, historical documents and digital libraries, document based forensics, camera and video based scene text analysis.[1]
History
ICDAR is held since 1991 every second year. The city is every year a different one:[2]
| 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/ |