1. An imaging system comprising: a. providing an image; b. electronically processing the image to produce a digital image; c. at least one level of identification, partitioning the image from the previous step into subarrays; d. comparing the content of each subarray with memory elements of that level of identification; e. assigning a symbol to each subarray, said symbol being the symbol of the memory element matching the content of the subarray, wherein the assigned symbol is a pixel element in a symbolic image for the next level; f. repeating step e. until all subarrays have assigned symbols; g. forming the symbolic image from the assigned symbols; h. repeating recursively steps c. through g. until all levels of identification have been completed; i. as a last level, forming a single subarray of pixel elements of the symbolic image formed in the preceding level; j. comparing the content of the single subarray with the memory elements of the last level; and, k. assigning a name to the subarray, said name being the name of the memory element in the last level matching the content of the single subarray and naming the image of step a.