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ICDAR 2025 Competition on Historical Map Text Detection, Recognition, and Linking

Lin, Yijun
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Tual, Solenn
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Li, Zekun
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Yin, Xu-Cheng
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Karatzas, Dimosthenis
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2026
Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2025 - 19th International Conference, Wuhan, China, September 16–21, 2025, Proceedings, Part V
19th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2025)

Historical maps are valuable for history, social sciences, and linguistics but pose challenges for automatic transcription. This competition edition continues to address detection, recognition, and linking of text in historical maps, with new features: expanded French Land Registers data, a new Taiwanese dataset with Chinese characters, synthetic training data, and improved linking evaluation metrics. Seven teams participated with over 25 submissions across four tasks and three datasets. While detection performance is strong, recognition and linking remain difficult, though improvements were seen with Bézier curve line fitting and enhanced linking pipelines. All resources are publicly available on Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/communities/icdar-maptext).

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conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-032-04630-7_33
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-105016907403

Author(s)
Lin, Yijun

University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Tual, Solenn

Université Gustave Eiffel

Li, Zekun

University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Jang, Leeje

University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Chiang, Yao Yi

University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Weinman, Jerod

Grinnell College

Chazalon, Joseph

EPITA

Carlinet, Edwin

EPITA

Perret, Julien

Université Gustave Eiffel

Abadie, Nathalie

Université Gustave Eiffel

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Editors
Yin, Xu-Cheng
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Karatzas, Dimosthenis
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Lopresti, Daniel
Date Issued

2026

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Published in
Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2025 - 19th International Conference, Wuhan, China, September 16–21, 2025, Proceedings, Part V
Series title/Series vol.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 16027 LNCS

ISSN (of the series)

1611-3349

0302-9743

Start page

568

End page

585

Subjects

Hierarchical text detection

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Historical maps

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Text linking

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Text recognition

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Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
19th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2025)

ICDAR 2025

Wuhan, China

2025-09-16 - 2025-09-21

FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

French Ministry of the Armed Forces-Defense Innovation Agency

AID

French department of Val-de-Marne

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October 6, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/254673
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