Patent Document ID: 20150055867
Application ID: 14533015
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of searching electronic documents, comprising, using one or more computer processors: (a) ripping data from each of a plurality of documents; (b) from the ripped data, detecting embedded objects in each document; (c) converting data from the detected embedded objects to text; (d) in a buffer, storing information including: (1) text of each document and (2) the text obtained from conversion of the detected embedded objects in each document, wherein the storing includes storing the spatial relationship between (1) and (2) according to the original locations where the embedded objects appear in each of the documents; (e) receiving search criteria including a plurality of search terms provided by a user; and (f) searching the stored information based on the search criteria and identifying documents, if any, that contain matching occurrences of at least a first of the search terms in an embedded object and at least a second of the search terms not in the embedded object.