The present embodiments are generally directed to electronic circuit design and verification and more particularly to techniques for generating electronic design element symbols for electronic circuit design tool libraries and designs in any desired format. In embodiments, such electronic design element symbols can be generated from a datasheet or any other image using image processing, graphical shape and text recognition techniques. Embodiments use step by step processing to extract feature vectors from a symbol/design image, apply text and graphical shapes recognition using models, apply techniques for data association and write the final output for targeted systems. These and other embodiments can feed back the output data for further refinement of the recognition models.