ICDAR 2027 — 21st International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition

ICDAR 2027, the 21st International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, runs 18-22 August 2027 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ICDAR is the field's flagship venue: the research presented here — layout analysis, handwriting and scene-text recognition, table and formula extraction, signature verification, document forensics — is the science underneath every intelligent document processing product an enterprise buys. The 2027 call for papers has shifted decisively toward generative AI, explicitly soliciting work on foundation models for document understanding, multimodal LLMs for documents, agents for document AI and document reasoning models, alongside the classical tracks on historical documents, medical documents and private and secure document understanding. The organising committee expects roughly 450 participants across keynote talks, main-track sessions, panel discussions, poster exhibitions and side workshops — small enough that the authors of the papers your vendors will cite are actually reachable in the hallway.

• Abstract deadlineJan 31, 2027
• Full paper deadlineFeb 20, 2027
• Reviews released to authorsApr 20, 2027
• Rebuttal deadlineApr 27, 2027
• Acceptance notificationMay 15, 2027
• Camera-ready deadlineJun 5, 2027

Date

August 18–22, 2027

Location

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Format

In-Person

Event Type

Conference

Status

Upcoming

Expected Attendance

450

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

ICDAR 2027 Organizing Committee

Added

Aug 16, 2026

Updated

Aug 16, 2026

• ✓Chief Data Officers
• ✓Heads of AI/ML
• ✓Intelligent document processing product leaders
• ✓Computer vision and NLP researchers
• ✓ML engineers
• ✓Enterprise architects in insurance, banking and healthcare

If your roadmap includes automating claims, invoices, contracts, onboarding packets or KYC files, this is where you learn what document AI can genuinely do roughly a year before a vendor demo asserts it. You leave with a calibrated read on where multimodal LLMs still fail — dense tables, handwriting, low-resource scripts, degraded scans, multi-page reasoning — the benchmarks and datasets your evaluation harness should be using, and direct contact with the researchers whose work your document-processing vendor will productise next.

• ✓Main-track topic area: foundation models for document understanding
• ✓Main-track topic area: multimodal LLMs for documents and agents for document AI
• ✓Main-track topic area: recognition of tables and formulas
• ✓Main-track topic area: private and secure document understanding
• ✓Main-track topic area: document forensics and provenance, and signature verification
• ✓Programme format: keynote talks, main-track sessions, panel discussions, poster exhibitions, side workshops and social gatherings

• ★The only top-tier venue devoted entirely to document analysis — the research layer beneath every IDP and document-extraction product on the market
• ★The 2027 call for papers names foundation models for document understanding, multimodal LLMs for documents, agents for document AI and document reasoning models as first-class topics, not workshop side-tracks
• ★At roughly 450 expected participants it is a working conference, not a trade show — the authors of the benchmarks your vendors quote are in the room
• ★Twenty-first edition of a series that has defined the field's benchmarks and competitions since 1991

Registration rates for ICDAR 2027 are not yet published — the conference site currently carries only the programme outline and the call for papers. Historically ICDAR uses tiered IAPR-member, non-member and student rates announced after acceptance notifications.

When is ICDAR 2027?

ICDAR 2027 takes place August 18–22, 2027 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Where is ICDAR 2027 held?

ICDAR 2027 is held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The event format is in-person.

What is the ICDAR 2027 submission deadline?

The next ICDAR 2027 deadline is abstract deadline on Jan 31, 2027. Remaining dates: Full paper deadline — Feb 20, 2027; Reviews released to authors — Apr 20, 2027; Rebuttal deadline — Apr 27, 2027; Acceptance notification — May 15, 2027; Camera-ready deadline — Jun 5, 2027.

How much does ICDAR 2027 cost?

ICDAR 2027 is paid. Registration rates for ICDAR 2027 are not yet published — the conference site currently carries only the programme outline and the call for papers. Historically ICDAR uses tiered IAPR-member, non-member and student rates announced after acceptance notifications.

Who should attend ICDAR 2027?

ICDAR 2027 is aimed at Chief Data Officers, Heads of AI/ML, Intelligent document processing product leaders, Computer vision and NLP researchers, ML engineers, Enterprise architects in insurance, banking and healthcare.

What topics does ICDAR 2027 cover?

ICDAR 2027 covers Document AI, Foundation models for document understanding, Multimodal LLMs for documents, Handwriting and scene text recognition, Table and formula recognition, Information extraction and document retrieval, Document forensics and provenance, Private and secure document understanding.

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2. 2.icdar2027.org — call for papersvendor
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