Techniques are disclosed for facilitating optical character recognition (OCR) by identifying one or more regions in an electronic document to perform the OCR. For example a method for identifying information in an electronic document includes obtaining a set of training documents for each template of a plurality of templates for the electronic document, extracting spatial attributes for at least a first label region and at least a first corresponding value region from the set, and training a classifier model based on the extracted spatial attributes, wherein the classifier model is used to identify the information in the electronic document. The spatial attributes represent a position of at least the first label region and at least the first value region within the electronic document.