1. Competition on Handwritten Digit String Recognition in Challenging Datasets
Organizers: Robert Sablatnig, Markus Diem, Stefan Fiel, Florian Kleber, José M. Saavedra, Juan M. Barrios, Mauricio Palma, David Contreras, Luiz S. Oliveira
Competition URL: http://www.orand.cl/en/icfhr2014-hdsr/
Submission deadline: 25 March 2014

2. Handwritten Text Recognition on a tranScriptorium Dataset (HTRtS)
Organizers: Joan Andreu Sánchez, Verónica Romero, Alejandro H. Toselli, Enrique Vidal
Competition URL: http://www.transcriptorium.eu/~htrcontest/
Submission deadline: 14 April 2014

3. Competition on Recognition of Handwritten Mathematical Expressions (CROHME)
Organizers: Harold Mouchère, Christian Viard-Gaudin, Richard Zanibbi, Utpal Garain
Competition URL: http://www.isical.ac.in/~crohme/index.html
Submission deadline: 15 April 2014

4. 1st Edition of the Arabic Writer Identification Competition using AHTID/MW and KHATT Databases
Organizers: Fouad Slimane, Sameh Awaida, Anis Mezghani, Mohammad Tanvir Parvez, Slim Kanoun, Sabri A. Mahmoud, Volker Märgner
Competition URL: http://www.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/news/icfhr2014/
Submission deadline: 14 April 2014

5. ANWRESH-2014 – Competition on Word Recognition from Segmented Historical Documents 
Organizers: Shawn Reid, Jack Reese and Michael Murdock
Competition URL: http://collections.Ancestry.com/ANWRESH-2014
Submission deadline: 14 April 2014

6. Handwritten Document Image Binarization COmpetition (H-DIBCO 2014)
Organizers: Konstantinos Ntirogiannis, Basilis Gatos, Ioannis Pratikakis
Competition URL: http://users.iit.demokritos.gr/~kntir/HDIBCO2014/
Submission deadline: 4 April 2014

7. Handwritten Keyword Spotting Competition (H-KWS 2014)
Organizers: Ioannis Pratikakis, Konstantinos Zagoris, Basilis Gatos, Georgios Louloudis, Nikolaos Stamatopoulos
Competition URL: http://vc.ee.duth.gr/h-kws2014/
Submission deadline: 14 April 2014