Abstract: The various embodiments herein provide a method and system for identifying and extracting data from electronic documents. The method comprises of extracting text from scanned documents with location on page data using OCR technology, identifying one or more tables present in a page using patterns in text placement in rows and columns, identifying the table boundaries using a pattern recognition method, identifying table borders using the location on page data, identifying the rows and columns on the table based on the identified table borders, defining a table structure for data extraction and automatically extracting data from cells of the table formed by identified rows and columns.