Method and system for virtually printing digital content to a searchable electronic database format

A computer system for virtually printing digital content to a searchable electronic database format to facilitate locating or analyzing desired content, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• memory associated with the at least one processor;
• and
• a program supported in the memory having a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause that processor to:
• (a) divide the digital content into one or more virtual pages;
• (b) extract content data from the one or more virtual pages, and store the content data in a database;
• and
• (c) generate associations between the content data and respective virtual pages from which the content data was extracted, and store the associations in a database.

A computer program product for virtually printing digital content to a searchable electronic database format to facilitate locating or analyzing desired content, the computer program product residing on a computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, cause that processor to:

• (a) divide the digital content into one or more virtual pages;
• (b) extract content data from the one or more virtual pages, and store the content data in a database;
• and
• (c) generate associations between the content data and respective virtual pages from which the content data was extracted, and store the associations in a database.