4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: determining whether the user has authorization to access the original file, wherein the location is provided only when the user is determined to have authorization to access the original file.
1. A method for document discovery, comprising: receiving a scan of a physical copy of a document comprising a non-text object; determining a first tag for the non-text object by comparing the non-text object with a plurality of templates comprising a plurality of tags, wherein the first tag defines a portion of the non-text object in an original file and specifies a type of the non-text object and a formatting attribute of the non-text object; generating, based on the first tag, non-text object metadata comprising composition information comprising the type and the formatting attribute for the non-text object; searching a plurality of electronic documents stored in a data repository with a search query comprising the non-text object metadata, wherein each of the plurality of electronic documents comprises searchable metadata; comparing the non-text object metadata with the searchable metadata; and providing a location of the original file to a user when the non-text object metadata in the search query matches the searchable metadata of the original file.