This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th IAPR International workshops on Document Analysis Systems, DAS 2026, which took place in conjunctions with ICDAR 2026, in Vienna, Austria, during September 3-4, 2026.The 29 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Tables, Forms and Structured Extraction; Document-Centric AI, Retrieval and REasoning; Handwriting, Writer Identificati...

This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in research and applications of Foundation Models and is intended for readers familiar with basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) concepts.Over the recent years, a revolutionary new paradigm has been developed for training models for NLP. These models are first pre-trained on large collections of text documents to acquire general syntactic knowledge and semantic information. Then, they are fine-tuned ...

Broad in scope, Semantic Multimedia Analysis and Processing provides a complete reference of techniques, algorithms, and solutions for the design and the implementation of contemporary multimedia systems. Offering a balanced, global look at the latest advances in semantic indexing, retrieval, analysis, and processing of multimedia, the book features the contributions of renowned researchers from around the world. Its contents are based on four fundamental thematic pillars:...

The 4-volume set LNCS 16972-16975 constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2026, which took place in Vienna, Austria, from August 31 to September 2, 2026.The 140 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 300 submissions. In addition, this proceedings includes 8 competition reports which were also reviewed, separately from the main submission process.The papers were or...

The 4-volume set LNCS 16972-16975 constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2026, which took place in Vienna, Austria, from August 31 to September 2, 2026.The 140 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 300 submissions. In addition, this proceedings includes 8 competition reports which were also reviewed, separately from the main submission process.The papers were or...

The 4-volume set LNCS 16972-16975 constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2026, which took place in Vienna, Austria, from August 31 to September 2, 2026.The 140 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 300 submissions. In addition, this proceedings includes 8 competition reports which were also reviewed, separately from the main submission process.The papers were or...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the international workshops co-located with the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in September 2021.The total of 59 full and 12 short papers presented in this book were carefully selected from 96 submissions and divided into two volumes. Part II contains 30 full and 8 short papers that stem from the following meetings: Workshop on Machine Learning (WML); Workshop on...

The 4-volume set LNCS 16972-16975 constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2026, which took place in Vienna, Austria, from August 31 to September 2, 2026.The 140 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 300 submissions. In addition, this proceedings includes 8 competition reports which were also reviewed, separately from the main submission process.The papers were or...

The 5-volume set LNCS 16023 - 16027 constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2025, which took place in Wuhan, China, during September 2025.The total of 142 full papers included in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 314 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Document Analysis; Handwriting Recognition; Document Synthesis, Multimodal Models for Document Un...

This six-volume set of LNCS 14187, 14188, 14189, 14190, 14191 and 14192 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021, held in San José, CA, USA, in August 2023. The 53 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 316 submissions, and are presented with 101 poster presentations.The papers are organized into the following topical sections: Graphics Recognition, Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS 2022, held in La Rochelle, France, in May 2022.The full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions addressing key techniques of document analysis.

This four-volume set of LNCS 12821, LNCS 12822, LNCS 12823 and LNCS 12824, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021, held in Lausanne, Switzerland in September 2021. The 182 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 340 submissions, and are presented with 13 competition reports.The papers are organized into the following topical sections: document analysis for literature search, document s...