Access to stored documents is through a web server running on the document server. This provides a platform-independent technique for document retrieval in a format (the web browser) that is already familiar to most users. Each user has their own home page which provides an entry point into their collection of saved documents.

The retrieval interfaces available to each user are illustrated by Figure 2 which shows an example of one user's home page. Two chronological

views of each user's documents are provided. These include a calendar view as well as a listing of the ten most recently saved documents. Conventional text search is also provided as well as listings of various data extracted from the documents. Users can also browse a listing of all the documents that have been saved for them. They can also directly access the document they most recently viewed or the document they most recently processed (e.g., re-printed).