Recent years have seen an increased effort to scan, index, and provide access to historical documents held in archives and special collections that are often inaccessible to the world in general. ICDAR 2009 featured both a half day tutorial and single technical paper session dedicated to historical document processing. Two years later at ICDAR 2011, the first workshop dedicated entirely on this topic was a great success with overwhelming participation. This 1-day workshop continues the effort to bring together researchers working with historical documents and is intended to be complementary and synergistic to the work in analysis and recognition featured in the main ICDAR sessions.