2. The zone-based metadata extraction method of claim 1 , further comprising: notifying a second plugin service associated to the one or more zones in the plurality of zones; extracting, by the second plugin service, a second metadata element associated to the one or more zones in the plurality of zones; assigning the second metadata element to the one or more objects associated to the document type; storing the one or more objects associated to the document type; and, invoking the one or more triggers assigned to the one or more zones in the plurality of zones.
2. The zone-based metadata extraction method of claim 1 , further comprising: notifying a second plugin service associated to the one or more zones in the plurality of zones; extracting, by the second plugin service, a second metadata element associated to the one or more zones in the plurality of zones; assigning the second metadata element to the one or more objects associated to the document type; storing the one or more objects associated to the document type; and, invoking the one or more triggers assigned to the one or more zones in the plurality of zones. 3. The zone-based metadata extraction method of claim 2 , wherein the document associated with the document type comprises text and wherein extracting the first metadata element or the second metadata element associated to each zone in the plurality of zones comprises applying optical character recognition to the document associated with the document type.