26. The method of claim 23 wherein the copying data from the file system is performed before the capturing of textual data, further comprising, in the memory device, identifying electronic instances of rendered documents containing the captured textual data, and a specific location within the electronic instances, by using the data from the file system to obtain a recognition result, and wherein the stored version of the captured textual data is the recognition result.
23. A method of transferring data to and from a memory device to a computing device having a file system, comprising: at a first time, capturing images of text using an imaging device connected to the memory device; storing a version of the captured images of text in the memory device; at a second time, converting at least some of the captured images of text to textual representations; storing the textual representations in the memory device; at a third time, compressing or deleting any converted captured images; connecting the memory device to the computing device; transferring the textual representations stored in the memory device to the file system of the computing device; and in response to a file system command issued to the computing device by a user, copying data from the file system to the memory device.