1 March 2017: Competitions published on ICDAR2016 website and open to participants.

1 March 2017: Training data-set available for registred participants.
29 May 2017: Test data-sets available
1 June (17:00 GMT) 2017: Delivery of results with a two-page description of the method
1 July 2017: Deadline for submission for review of full papers describing the competitions.