The International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 2024 Organizing Committee would like to remind readers that the ICDAR 2024 conference will be held in physical format from August 30th to September 4th 2024 in Athens, Greece. This is the 18th edition of this conference series, and is now an annual conference.

Topics of Interest:

• Document image processing
• Physical and logical layout analysis
• Text and symbol recognition
• Handwriting recognition
• Document analysis systems
• Document classification
• Indexing and retrieval of documents
• Document synthesis
• Extracting document semantics
• NLP for document understanding
• Office automation
• Graphics recognition
• Human document interaction
• Document Representation Modeling
• Structured document generation
• Multimedia document analysis
• Mobile text recognition
• Pen-based document analysis
• Scene text detection and recognition
• Recognition of tables and formulas
• Historical document analysis
• Signature verification
• Document summarization and translation
• Document forensics and provenance
• Medical document analysis
• Document analysis for social good
• Document analysis for literature search
• Gold-standard benchmarks and datasets

Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science is the Publisher for ICDAR 2024

The ICDAR 2024 proceedings will be published under the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

This provides the proceedings of the conference and the workshops with an excellent online accessibility, including free access to SpringerLink via links on the conference website during one year after the publication and free access for everyone in SpringerLink four years after the publication.

Submission and Review

There is both a standard conference paper track and a journal track at ICDAR 2024. The deadline for the journal track has passed.

The conference paper submission deadline is on 1 February 2024. There will not be an extension made to this deadline.

ICDAR 2024 conference papers will follow a single blind review process. Papers should be formatted according to the instructions and style files provided by Springer. The LaTeX template for LNCS can be downloaded from the ICDAR 2024 website <icdar2024.net>. The template is also available on Overleaf. Papers accepted for the conference will be allocated up to 15 pages in the proceedings. Submissions are expected to be in the range of 10-15 pages.

Accepted papers for ICDAR 2024 will be presented in Oral or Poster presentation forms.

All paper proposals should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair online submission form:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdar2024

Enquiries should be sent to pc-chairs@icdar2024.net.

Important Dates

1 February 2024 – Paper submission deadline (no extension will be made)

15 April 2024 – Paper acceptance notification

30 April 2024 – Camera-ready copy due

30 August 2024 – Conference begins in Athens

See the conference website <icdar2024.net> for information on satellite workshops, tutorials and competitions.

ICDAR 2024 is proudly sponsored by TC-10 & TC-11 of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) < https://iapr.org >.

ICDAR 2025 will be held in Wuhan China.

ICDAR 2026 will be held in Vienna Austria.

Thank you and we hope to see you there,

Elisa, Marcus, Liangrui