diff --git a/src/patcher/from-docx.spec.ts b/src/patcher/from-docx.spec.ts
index 908c4a94e5..c7f4f9667d 100644
--- a/src/patcher/from-docx.spec.ts
+++ b/src/patcher/from-docx.spec.ts
@@ -202,15 +202,11 @@ describe("from-docx", () => {
     describe("patchDocument", () => {
         describe("document.xml and [Content_Types].xml", () => {
             beforeEach(() => {
-                vi.spyOn(JSZip, "loadAsync").mockReturnValue(
-                    new Promise<JSZip>((resolve) => {
-                        const zip = new JSZip();
+                const zip = new JSZip();
 
-                        zip.file("word/document.xml", MOCK_XML);
-                        zip.file("[Content_Types].xml", `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>`);
-                        resolve(zip);
-                    }),
-                );
+                zip.file("word/document.xml", MOCK_XML);
+                zip.file("[Content_Types].xml", `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>`);
+                vi.spyOn(JSZip, "loadAsync").mockResolvedValue(zip);
             });
 
             afterEach(() => {
@@ -289,6 +285,32 @@ describe("from-docx", () => {
                 expect(output).to.not.be.undefined;
             });
 
+            it("should work with the raw JSZip type", async () => {
+                const zip = new JSZip();
+
+                zip.file("word/document.xml", MOCK_XML);
+                zip.file("[Content_Types].xml", `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>`);
+                const output = await patchDocument({
+                    outputType: "uint8array",
+                    data: zip,
+                    patches: {},
+                });
+                expect(output).to.not.be.undefined;
+            });
+
+            it("should skiup UTF-16 types", async () => {
+                const zip = new JSZip();
+
+                zip.file("word/document.xml", MOCK_XML);
+                zip.file("[Content_Types].xml", Buffer.from([0xff, 0xfe]));
+                const output = await patchDocument({
+                    outputType: "uint8array",
+                    data: zip,
+                    patches: {},
+                });
+                expect(output).to.not.be.undefined;
+            });
+
             it("should patch the document", async () => {
                 const output = await patchDocument({
                     outputType: "uint8array",
diff --git a/src/patcher/from-docx.ts b/src/patcher/from-docx.ts
index a85bcd06dd..f69a0e87e1 100644
--- a/src/patcher/from-docx.ts
+++ b/src/patcher/from-docx.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import { replacer } from "./replacer";
 import { toJson } from "./util";
 
 // eslint-disable-next-line functional/prefer-readonly-type
-export type InputDataType = Buffer | string | number[] | Uint8Array | ArrayBuffer | Blob | NodeJS.ReadableStream;
+export type InputDataType = Buffer | string | number[] | Uint8Array | ArrayBuffer | Blob | NodeJS.ReadableStream | JSZip;
 
 export const PatchType = {
     DOCUMENT: "file",
@@ -59,9 +59,12 @@ export type PatchDocumentOptions<T extends PatchDocumentOutputType = PatchDocume
         readonly start: string;
         readonly end: string;
     }>;
+    readonly recursive?: boolean;
 };
 
 const imageReplacer = new ImageReplacer();
+const UTF16LE = Buffer.from([0xff, 0xfe]);
+const UTF16BE = Buffer.from([0xfe, 0xff]);
 
 export const patchDocument = async <T extends PatchDocumentOutputType = PatchDocumentOutputType>({
     outputType,
@@ -69,8 +72,12 @@ export const patchDocument = async <T extends PatchDocumentOutputType = PatchDoc
     patches,
     keepOriginalStyles,
     placeholderDelimiters = { start: "{{", end: "}}" } as const,
+    /**
+     * Search for occurrences over patched document
+     */
+    recursive = true,
 }: PatchDocumentOptions<T>): Promise<OutputByType[T]> => {
-    const zipContent = await JSZip.loadAsync(data);
+    const zipContent = data instanceof JSZip ? data : await JSZip.loadAsync(data);
     const contexts = new Map<string, IContext>();
     const file = {
         Media: new Media(),
@@ -87,8 +94,15 @@ export const patchDocument = async <T extends PatchDocumentOutputType = PatchDoc
     const binaryContentMap = new Map<string, Uint8Array>();
 
     for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(zipContent.files)) {
+        const binaryValue = await value.async("uint8array");
+        const startBytes = binaryValue.slice(0, 2);
+        if (UTF16LE.equals(startBytes) || UTF16BE.equals(startBytes)) {
+            binaryContentMap.set(key, binaryValue);
+            continue;
+        }
+
         if (!key.endsWith(".xml") && !key.endsWith(".rels")) {
-            binaryContentMap.set(key, await value.async("uint8array"));
+            binaryContentMap.set(key, binaryValue);
             continue;
         }
 
@@ -96,12 +110,10 @@ export const patchDocument = async <T extends PatchDocumentOutputType = PatchDoc
 
         if (key === "word/document.xml") {
             const document = json.elements?.find((i) => i.name === "w:document");
-            if (document) {
+            if (document && document.attributes) {
                 // We could check all namespaces from Document, but we'll instead
                 // check only those that may be used by our element types.
 
-                // eslint-disable-next-line functional/immutable-data
-                document.attributes = document.attributes ?? {};
                 for (const ns of ["mc", "wp", "r", "w15", "m"] as const) {
                     // eslint-disable-next-line functional/immutable-data
                     document.attributes[`xmlns:${ns}`] = DocumentAttributeNamespaces[ns];
@@ -179,7 +191,8 @@ export const patchDocument = async <T extends PatchDocumentOutputType = PatchDoc
                         context,
                         keepOriginalStyles,
                     });
-                    if (!didFindOccurrence) {
+                    // What the reason doing that? Once document is patched - it search over patched json again, that takes too long if patched document has big and deep structure.
+                    if (!recursive || !didFindOccurrence) {
                         break;
                     }
                 }
@@ -275,7 +288,15 @@ export const patchDocument = async <T extends PatchDocumentOutputType = PatchDoc
 };
 
 const toXml = (jsonObj: Element): string => {
-    const output = js2xml(jsonObj);
+    const output = js2xml(jsonObj, {
+        attributeValueFn: (str) =>
+            String(str)
+                .replace(/&(?!amp;|lt;|gt;|quot;|apos;)/g, "&amp;")
+                .replace(/</g, "&lt;")
+                .replace(/>/g, "&gt;")
+                .replace(/"/g, "&quot;")
+                .replace(/'/g, "&apos;"), // cspell:words apos
+    });
     return output;
 };
 
diff --git a/src/patcher/patch-detector.ts b/src/patcher/patch-detector.ts
index 31756f0a6e..eba608e258 100644
--- a/src/patcher/patch-detector.ts
+++ b/src/patcher/patch-detector.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ type PatchDetectorOptions = {
 
 /** Detects which patches are needed/present in a template */
 export const patchDetector = async ({ data }: PatchDetectorOptions): Promise<readonly string[]> => {
-    const zipContent = await JSZip.loadAsync(data);
+    const zipContent = data instanceof JSZip ? data : await JSZip.loadAsync(data);
     const patches = new Set<string>();
 
     for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(zipContent.files)) {
diff --git a/src/patcher/traverser.ts b/src/patcher/traverser.ts
index 2df41859bc..30f647fd95 100644
--- a/src/patcher/traverser.ts
+++ b/src/patcher/traverser.ts
@@ -34,10 +34,9 @@ export const traverse = (node: Element): readonly IRenderedParagraphNode[] => {
 
         if (currentNode.element.name === "w:p") {
             renderedParagraphs = [...renderedParagraphs, renderParagraphNode(currentNode)];
-        } else {
-            // eslint-disable-next-line functional/immutable-data
-            queue.push(...elementsToWrapper(currentNode));
         }
+        // eslint-disable-next-line functional/immutable-data
+        queue.push(...elementsToWrapper(currentNode));
     }
 
     return renderedParagraphs;