This six-volume set of LNCS 14187, 14188, 14189, 14190, 14191 and 14192 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17 th  International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021, held in San José, CA, USA, in August 2023. The 53 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 316 submissions, and are presented with 101 poster presentations. The papers are organized into the following topical sections: Graphics Recognition, Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Document Analysis and Recognition.