kodak may be used in various embodiments scanning the document may also involve performing optical character recognition ocr to generate an electronic version of any text present on the document also in various embodiments for example when the document is an incoming letter the envelope as well as its contents may be scanned it will be appreciated that some kinds of documents may not need to be scanned for example some faxes e mails e mail attachments etc may be received directly in an electronic format alleviating the need for scanning at step 104 the document may be classified for example based on a document type the available document types may in various embodiments depend on the applications for example a system for handling incoming legal documents such as the one described below may classify documents as pleadings complaints subpoenas etc the classification may be based for example on text present on or in the document or in various embodiments may be based on a barcode or other indication present on the documents at step 106 data regarding the document may be extracted and stored the data may include for example a recipient a sender an account number to which the information pertains etc the extracted information may in various embodiments be based on text retrieved from the document through ocr fig2 shows a workflow 200 according to various embodiments for handling incoming documents an incoming document may be scanned at kodak scanner 202 opex scanner 204 or any other suitable type of scanner it will be appreciated that scanning incoming documents may.