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

Final Call – Just Under Two Weeks Left to Submit to MapText’25

Dear colleagues,

This is a final reminder that the MapText’25 competition, part of ICDAR 2025 (International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition), is still open for participation—but only for a few more days. The final deadline is April 20, 2025.

If you're working on text detection, recognition, or linking, this competition offers a valuable opportunity to benchmark your methods on challenging historical map data and contribute to ongoing research in document analysis.

Key Information:

📅 Final Submission Deadline: April 20, 2025
📂 What to Submit: Test set predictions + short method description (no code nor binaries)
🏆 Top teams will be invited to co-author the official competition report (published at ICDAR) and will receive an on-stage award at the main conference

Dataset Highlights:

• French land registers
• English Ordnance Survey maps
• Taiwanese maps with Chinese characters
• Synthetic training data to support development

You can evaluate your methods on our public platform or use the open evaluation tools offline.

🔗 Competition platform & test set access: https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32
 📢 Stay informed: https://groups.google.com/g/icdar25-maptext-news

Whether you’ve been preparing for months or are just discovering the competition, we encourage you to take part and submit your results before the deadline.

We look forward to your contributions,
 — ICDAR 2025 MapText Organizers