Abstract: A method and a system for searching phrases in document sections is presented. Systems that sift through documents, such as medical documents, need to extract information from specific section of a document. The method is comprised of three phases, which are training phase, document preparation phase and search phase. During training phase, the section headers of documents are defined. Once training is completed, each document is preprocessed to generate search indexes, which also identifies the section in which a word of the document appears. In the search phase the user specifies, both the search phrase and the sections where the phrase has to be found.