2. The system of claim 1 , wherein said storage means has a directory structure, said component document being stored in said storage means under a directory associated with said compound document.
1. A system for duplicating documents of disparate types for facilitating searching of such documents, said system comprising: storage means for storing at least one original file, each containing no more than one original document, said original file being in a first format; processing means for determining that said original document is a component document of a compound document, extracting said component document from said compound document and storing said component document in said original file; and conversion means for converting said original file from said first format to a canonical format thereby generating a duplicate file containing a duplicate document of said original document, whereby searching of such documents is facilitated.