Abstract: The present disclosure relates to processing computer documents. According to one aspect, a method for locating an electronic document may include acquiring a source document of a target document to be located, wherein the target document has a sending-receiving relation with the source document. Metadata information of the source document may be extracted. The extracted metadata information may be packaged to generate a link to the source document, the link being used for locating the target document. According to an example method and the system, it may be possible to directly and automatically locate the target document having a sending-receiving relation with a source document based on a link to the source document containing metadata information without manually analyzing and extracting the related information on the source document or changing the existing access right to the source document and the target document.