August 18-20, 1997, Ulm, Germany
Here was the original ICDAR'97 site
The IEEE Computer Society published the Proceedings of this conference (also available on CDROM).
Here are links to the Abstracts
4th International Conference Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR '97) (2-Volume Set) August 18-20, 1997 Ulm, GERMANY Contents: Character Recognition and Segmentation Document Image Analysis Map and Engineering Drawings Word Recognition Document Processing Applications and Systems Asian Character Recognition Text and Document Understanding Hypermedia Processing and Signature Verification On-Line Recognition Classifier Combination Storage and Retrieval of Documents Research Environments Theoretical Approach Abstracts 1,200 pages. 8 =" x 11" Softcover. August 1997. ISBN 0-8186-7898-4. Catalog # PR07898 $100.00 Members / $200.00 List CD-ROM: August 1997. ISBN 0-8186-8079-2 Catalog # SW08079 $85.00 Member / $170.00 List CD-ROM & 2-Volume Set:August 1997. ISBN 0-8186-8080-6 Catalog # PR08080 $150.00 Member / $300.00 List