8. The method of claim 7 wherein: at the determining step, an addressable-entity portion of the recognized character string is determined to have a symbolic denotation in that it corresponds to entity having an address indicated by the addressing portion; and at the performing-further-processing step the addressable-entity portion of the recognized character string is input to the further data processing program as the entity corresponding to the address of the addressing portion.
7. The method of claim 6 further comprising the step of: choosing a first further data processing program which is stored on a software storage device; wherein at the determining step, an addressing portion of the recognized character string is determined to have a symbolic denotation in that it corresponds to one of the following address categories: a telephone number, a physical street address or an email address; and wherein at the performing-further-processing step, the addressing portion of the recognized character string is input to a further data processing program along with its address category.