Abstract: Disclosed is a multiple column keyword pattern matching apparatus configured to match multiple column keyword patterns including a plurality rows and a plurality of columns with respect to a given text. The apparatus includes a multiple keyword matching portion configured to search for keywords included in the multiple column keyword pattern while scanning the given text and generate a keyword matching result including text position information in the given text of a found keyword as a keyword matching result corresponding to the found keyword, a matching result window updating portion configured to add the generated keyword matching result to a matching result window defined with a certain range, and a matching state table updating portion configured to update a matching state table which maintains matching numbers of keyword matching results included in the matching result window.