[Call for Workshops] [ICDAR 2026] - Document Analysis - deadline 22 December 2025

[Elisa Barney]

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) - Call for Workshops

https://icdar2026.org/index.php/call-for-workshops/

The Workshop Chairs of the 20th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2026) invite proposals for affiliated workshops that will take place on  3–4 September (tentative), 2026, following the main conference in Vienna, Austria.

Key Dates

• Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: 22 December 2025
• Workshop Approval Notification: 13 February 2025
• Tentative Workshop Dates:  3–4 September 2026 (post-conference workshops)

Main Conference Topics

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• Historical document analysis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

Workshops that complement these themes are sought.

Application Instructions

See the ICDAR 2026 website <https://icdar2026.org/index.php/call-for-workshops/> for the full workshop call and details on submission procedure.

Submit your workshop proposal via email to the ICDAR 2026 Workshop Chairs:

                Email: workshop...@icdar2026.org

Please include ICDAR 2026 Workshop in the subject line.

We look forward to receiving your proposals and to a vibrant workshop program in Vienna! 

For questions or support, please contact the Workshop Chairs directly.

Workshop chairs:

• Jihad El-Sana, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
• Elisa Barney Smith, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
• George Retsinas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece