📌 Website: https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32
 📩 Contact: icdar25-maptext-contact (at) googlegroups.com
 📢 Updates: https://groups.google.com/g/icdar25-maptext-news
 ⏳ Extended Submission Deadline: April 20, 2025

Still Time to Participate – Submission Deadline Extended

Dear colleagues,

There are still a few weeks left to participate in MapText’25, the ICDAR 2025 (International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition) Competition on Historical Map Text Detection, Recognition, and Linking. To align with recent updates from the main conference organizers, we have extended the final submission deadline to April 20, 2025.

If you are working on text detection, recognition, or linking, this competition provides a unique opportunity to benchmark your methods on challenging historical map datasets.

Key Details:

📅 New Submission Deadline: April 20, 2025
 📂 What to Submit: Predictions + method description (code/binaries submission not required)
 🏆 Top teams will be invited to co-author the competition report published at ICDAR and receive an on-stage award at the main conference

Competition Overview:

• Diverse datasets, including French land registers, English maps from the David Rumsey Collection, and Taiwanese maps featuring Chinese characters
• Large synthetic training data to support model development
• Improved evaluation metrics for more detailed performance feedback
• Public evaluation tools available for offline testing

How to Participate:

📥 Download the test set and submission guidelines: https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32
 📢 Stay updated: https://groups.google.com/g/icdar25-maptext-news

If you have already submitted, you may update your submission until the new deadline. We appreciate your participation and look forward to your contributions.

Do not hesitate to reach us by email if you have any question.

— ICDAR 2025 MapText Organizers