Call for Competitors

Competitions at DocEng provide a forum for evaluating and comparing approaches to challenging document engineering tasks, with shared benchmarks and transparent evaluation criteria.

DocEng’27 competition calls have not yet been announced. The competitions listed at DocEng’26 must not be represented as returning in 2027 without organiser confirmation.

DocEng’27 Competitions

Competition announcements will provide the following information for each challenge:

1. Challenge and scope: the document engineering problem to be addressed.
2. Who may participate: eligibility and team requirements.
3. Datasets and resources: available training, development and test materials.
4. Evaluation: quantitative measures, rules and assessment procedures.
5. Submission: packaging, submission location and reproducibility requirements.
6. Dates: registration, submission, results and presentation deadlines.
7. Organisers: contacts and any supporting organisations.

Competition 1: To be announced.

Competition 2: To be announced, if applicable.

Proposing a Competition

Organisers who wish to propose a benchmarking challenge should contact the DocEng’27 competition chairs once appointed. Contact details and proposal procedure: To be announced.

Previous Edition

DocEng’26 included challenges in Maltese-language OCR and photographed-document binarisation. See the 2026 competition archive for historical reference; those challenges and their deadlines are not yet confirmed for DocEng’27.