Welcome message from Technical Program Chairs

We are very pleased to present the technical program we have prepared for this 13th edition of ICDAR. We are so pleased to have received over 400 submissions (488 summaries submitted and 401 complete submissions in the end). The papers were submitted from 46 countries across the 5 continents: Africa (6 countries / 50 papers), Americas (4 countries / 35 papers), Asia (20 countries / 173 papers), Australia (1 country / 3 papers), and Europe (15 countries/140 papers).