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printed/handwritten text recognition, graphics analysis and recognition, document analysis, document understanding, historical documents and digital libraries, document based forensics, camera and video based scene text analysis.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 since 1991 every second year. The city is every year a different one:
References
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