Patent ID: 7457467

Claim:
A method for automatically combining a digital image with text data, comprising: (a) receiving electronic data comprising a digital image; (b) automatically classifying the image according to a predetermined set of categories; (c) searching a repository of categorized text data for text data having a parent category corresponding to the category of the image, according to a predetermined criterion, (d) iteratively searching a plurality of sub-categories of categorized text data, of the parent category, for text data corresponding to the category of the image according to the predetermined criterion, wherein each corresponding sub-category becomes the parent category for the next iteration of the search; and (e) automatically selecting text data from the repository that belongs to the sub-category of text data corresponding to the category of the image according to the predetermined criterion in the final iteration of the search; wherein (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) are executed on one or more servers; the text data is not metadata; the text data is at least one of a newspaper, book, magazine, brochure, pamphlet or advertisement; and each of the newspaper, book, magazine, brochure, pamphlet or advertisement are stored as a text file.