26. The method of claim 20 , wherein the obtaining step further includes obtaining control data from a minutiae data processing module.
20. A method of controlling a mail processing system comprising: defining a super set of minutiae associated with each of a plurality of documents prior to processing on mail processing equipment of the mail processing system, the super set of minutiae including a plurality of minutiae candidates associated with each document which, in combination, provide positive identification of each document; generating a document minutiae database for storing the plurality of minutiae candidates extracted from an electronic file; obtaining control data associated with each document by matching the stored minutiae candidates for each document with image minutiae obtained from an image post-print representation of each document loaded on the mail processing equipment, and applying the control data to control the operation of the mail processing equipment, wherein: the stored minutiae and the image minutiae are a plurality of document characteristics, the plurality of document characteristics are selected from a combination of two or more of font, pitch, key word, numerical sequence, symbol, phrase and coordinates of an area of interest on the document, the document characteristics individually are insufficient to uniquely identify one of the plurality of documents from a second document, but the combination of the two or more document characteristics are sufficient to uniquely identify the one document from the second document, and the mail processing system is either an inserter system or sorter system.