Patent ID: 7373365

Claim:
A system for automatic indexing and archiving of a plurality of paper documents in both hard and soft forms, said system comprising: a version management subsystem for managing a plurality of versions of a paper document, wherein the system is configured to scan each of said plurality of versions of said paper document at different times, wherein the version management subsystem is configured to manage the plurality of versions of said paper document based on a “Version” field contained in a cover page of each of said plurality of versions of said paper document; a consistency verification subsystem for managing consistency of an archived paper document, wherein said archived paper document comprises a cover page and a plurality of pages, wherein the consistency verification subsystem is configured to manage consistency of the archived paper document based on consistency verification of said cover page and each of said plurality of pages; and a cover page analysis subsystem for analyzing the cover page of a paper document, wherein, said cover page comprises a plurality of fields comprised of “Document Name:”, “Document Category:”, “Document Description:”, “# of Sheets:”, “User Name:”, “User ID:”, “Date:”, “SUser Name:”, “SUser ID:”, “Signature:”, and “SDate:”, and wherein the cover page analysis subsystem is configured to perform said analysis based on extracting said plurality of fields along with the corresponding values from said cover page.