Systems, methods, and media for searching documents based on text characteristics

Systems, methods and media for searching documents based on text characteristics are disclosed. Embodiments may include receiving by a document searching system a request to search a document for a keyword and to limit the search based on one or more text characteristics associated with the keyword. Embodiments may also include performing by the document searching system a search of the document based on the keyword and the one or more associated text characteristics to find an instance of the keyword and generating by the document searching system a search result based on the performed document search. The text characteristics in some embodiments may include one or more of font style information, font emphasis information, highlighting information, or color information. In some embodiments, performing the search of the document includes finding an instance of the keyword where the keyword has characteristics that match at least one associated text characteristic.