9. A method of identifying customers of productive assets, comprising: machine-searching a plurality of Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) financing statements that each includes a field for collateral information on specific productive assets that are supplied as collateral for a transaction underlying a corresponding UCC financing statement, and corresponding party information of the corresponding UCC financing statement; machine-recording the party information from each UCC financing statement; machine-retrieving a particular collateral information image from a particular collateral information field within at least some of the plurality of UCC financing statements and performing an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process on the image to derive digital text representing corresponding collateral information; and machine-organizing the derived collateral information in conjunction with corresponding party information into records in a searchable database, including keyword mapping the derived collateral information into equipment specific categories, wherein the keyword mapping includes linking both equipment types and brand names of manufacturers of the equipment types into at least one particular equipment specific category.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the corresponding UCC financing statement includes initial filing information and addendum information, and the method further includes adding the addendum information to the initial filing information to create a single record.