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<p><b>ICDAR 2025 Competition on Historical Map Text Detection, Recognition, and Linking</b></p>
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<p>đź“Ś <b>Website:</b> <a href="https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">
https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32</a><br>
đź“© <b>Contact:</b> icdar25-maptext-contact (at) googlegroups.com<br>
📢 <b>Updates:</b> <a href="https://groups.google.com/g/icdar25-maptext-news" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">
https://groups.google.com/g/icdar25-maptext-news</a><br>
⏳ <b>Final Submission Deadline:</b> April 20, 2025</p>
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<h3>Final Call – Just Under Two Weeks Left to Submit to MapText’25<br>
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<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>This is a final reminder that the <b>MapText’25 competition</b>, part of <b>ICDAR 2025 (International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition),</b> is still open for participation—but only for a few more days. The
<b>final deadline is April 20, 2025.</b></p>
<p>If you're working on <b>text detection, recognition, or linking</b>, this competition offers a valuable opportunity to benchmark your methods on
<b>challenging historical map data</b> and contribute to ongoing research in document analysis.</p>
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<h3>Key Information:</h3>
<p>đź“… <b>Final Submission Deadline:</b> April 20, 2025<br>
đź“‚ <b>What to Submit:</b> Test set predictions + short method description (no code nor binaries)<br>
🏆 <b>Top teams will be invited to co-author the official competition report</b> (published at ICDAR) and will receive an
<b>on-stage award</b> at the main conference</p>
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<h3>Dataset Highlights:</h3>
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<li><b>French</b> land registers</li><li><b>English</b> Ordnance Survey maps</li><li><b>Taiwanese</b> maps with <b>Chinese</b> characters</li><li><b>Synthetic training data</b> to support development</li></ul>
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You can evaluate your methods on our public platform or use the open evaluation tools offline.</p>
<p><b>đź”— Competition platform & test set access:</b> <a href="https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">
https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32</a><br>
<b> 📢 Stay informed:</b> <a href="https://groups.google.com/g/icdar25-maptext-news" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">
https://groups.google.com/g/icdar25-maptext-news</a></p>
<p>Whether you’ve been preparing for months or are just discovering the competition, we encourage you to take part and submit your results before the deadline.</p>
<p>We look forward to your contributions,<br>
<i> — ICDAR 2025 MapText Organizers</i><br>
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