Need to find a document after emptying the trash.

Not too long ago I looked through the list of things I had put in the Trash.  Some how I over looked a document I should have removed from the Trash and Empetyed Trash.  There is some way to locate what has been empteyed from the Trash and get it onto the Desktop.  How do I do that?
I have not Secured Empty Trash... so my document should still be able to be found and removed from the Emptey Trash.

As Michael says, it's touch and go as to whether you can retrieve the file.
Most used applications for data recovery are;
Data Rescue 3;
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
Stellar Phœnix;
http://www.macintosh-data-recovery.com/
Both programmes will give you a free download to scan your HD and see if the files are recoverable, but you'll have to pay for the full application to actually recover them. I've personally used DR3 with reasonable results on a bad drive, though it fails on more obscure file formats (I lost all my Audacity .aup files).
You'll need to be able to run the rescue application from another drive (a bootable clone is best).
Or you could just restore from your TM backup…

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