26. A method for acquiring related information from a corpus of documents, the device comprising: acquiring with an optical sensor an image of a document having document information and an annotation, wherein the annotation includes annotation markings representative of annotation text; separating the annotation from the document information; recognizing at least a portion of the annotation markings; performing, using a processor, a semantic search for related information from the corpus of documents using at least one of a portion of the annotation text derived from the annotation markings and a portion of the document information, the corpus of documents including a plurality of historical documents including one or more prior annotations previously made thereto, wherein the semantic search includes comparing a grammatical relationship in the portion of the annotation text or the portion of the document information to the one or more prior annotations included in the plurality of historical documents and to data in the plurality of historical documents; identifying the related information based at least in part upon the semantic search for related information from the corpus of documents, wherein the related information comprises one or more of the one or more prior annotations previously made to the historical documents and data in one of the historical documents of the plurality of historical documents; storing the related information in the electronic storage component; encrypting the separated annotation; and storing the document information, the encrypted separated annotation, and the identified related information in a new document, wherein acquiring with the optical sensor the image of the document having document information and the annotation includes retrieving a portion of geolocation information, the geolocation information indicating a location of the document at the time the document was previously annotated or marked up, and associating the portion of geolocation information with the image of the document and with a timestamp associated with the acquiring with the optical sensor the image of the document.
28. The method of claim 26 , wherein acquiring with the optical sensor the image of the document with the optical sensor includes acquiring a semi-unique document identifier, wherein the semi-unique identifier includes information about an identity of a person associated with the annotation.