The International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) is the premier scientific venue in the field of document analysis and recognition. This conference brings together international experts from academia and industry to present their latest research results, share their experiences and to promote research and development in all aspects of recognition and analysis of documents, with a particular focus on document image analysis. The 20th edition of this flagship conference will be held as an in person event in Vienna, Austria, from August 30 to September 04, 2026.
Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:
- 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 image analysis
- 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- Historical document analysis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 literature search
- Gold-standard benchmarks and datasets
Conference Paper Submissions:
Authors are invited to submit full-length papers describing original work of not more than 17 pages including figures and references. In addition to conference paper submission there is a separate journal track at ICDAR 2026, the details of which can be found in a separate Call for Papers: Call For Journal Track – ICDAR 2026
The review of conference papers will be double blind. Authors should not include their names, affiliations, or acknowledgements in submitted manuscripts, and should ensure that their identity is not revealed indirectly by citing their earlier work in the third person. Authors will be given the opportunity to respond to reviews in a rebuttal phase.
Submitted papers must adhere to the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format (Springer Guidelines/Templates). Detailed submission instructions for authors can be found on the conference website:
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ICDAR 2026 will present awards for the best paper, the best student paper, best poster paper, and the best industry paper presented at the conference.
Important Notes:
- Manuscripts not adhering to the page limit (maximum 17 pages all included), the formatting guidelines (Springer Lecture Notes format) or the anonymization requirements will be rejected without review.
- Authors wishing to submit their manuscript to a pre-publication service (such as, for example arXiv.org) may do so. Likewise, links to GitHub websites for sharing data and code are permitted. Reviewers will be advised not to attempt to determine the identity of authors by searching for that information within online sources such as this.
- The authorship of submitted manuscripts is final. No changes to the list of authors will be allowed once a paper has been submitted!
- Dual submissions of manuscripts to other venues in parallel to ICDAR 2026 are prohibited!
Important Dates
- Abstracts Deadline: 13 February 2026
- Full Paper Deadline: 27 February 2026
- Reviews to Authors: 17 April 2026
- Rebuttal Deadline: 24 April 2026
- Acceptance Notification: 15 May 2026
- Camera-ready Deadline: 15 June 2026
All deadlines are strict at 23:59 AOE (Anywhere on Earth). There will be NO EXTENSIONS.
Publication: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science
The conference proceedings will be published as part of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Papers need to be presented in person at the conference in order to be included in the published proceedings.
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