By Roberto Cadili, Data Scientist, KNIME & Lada Rudnitckaia, Data Scientist, KNIME Figure 1: Examples of book edition notices where information can be extracted thanks to OCR. Most of the time, the raw data that we need for our data science project is not organized in a neat, well-structured, and insightful table. Rather, this is sometimes stored as text in a scanned document. Words in the document must then be extracted one by one to form a text formatted data cell.