Patent ID: 8572066

Claim:
A computer implemented method comprising: determining, by an indexer application, that a file includes embedded content from which the indexer application is incapable of extracting indexable content; providing, by the indexer application, an identifier that is generated for the embedded content, to a redirector application; transmitting, by the indexer application, a request to a converter application to extract the indexable content from the embedded content; receiving, by the indexer application and from the redirector application, a request to separate the embedded content from the file, the request to separate including the identifier; in response to receiving the request to separate the embedded content from the file, separating, by the indexer redirector application the embedded content from the file; transmitting, by the indexer application, the separated embedded content to the redirector application; receiving, by the indexer application, the indexable content from the converter application; and indexing, by the indexer application, the received, indexable content.