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
    Private and secure document understanding
    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    Historical document analysis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
    Foundation models for document understanding