13. The device of claim 12 , wherein performing the semantic search includes: determining a set of data objects from the at least one of the portion of the annotation text and the portion of the document information; and determining, for the set of data objects, semantic information that specifies an entity type that identifies the data object as a type of person, location, or thing, wherein the identifying the related information includes returning an indication of each portion of related information that matches the semantic information.
12. A device for acquiring related information from a corpus of documents, the device comprising: an optical sensor; an electronic storage component coupled to the optical sensor; a processor in communication with the optical sensor and the electronic storage component; and a memory coupled to the processor and configured with processor-executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: acquire with the optical sensor an image of a document having document information and an annotation, wherein the annotation includes annotation markings representative of annotation text; separate the annotation from the document information; recognize at least a portion of the annotation markings; perform 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 recognized annotation markings and a portion of the document information, the corpus of documents including a plurality of historical documents including one or more prior annotations previously made thereto, wherein the semantic search includes comparing a grammatical relationship in the portion of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text or the portion of the document information to the one or more prior annotations included in the plurality of historical documents and to data in the plurality of historical documents; identify the related information based at least in part upon the semantic search for related information from the corpus of documents, wherein the related information comprises one or more of the one or more prior annotations previously made to the historical documents and data in one of the historical documents of the plurality of historical documents; store the related information in the electronic storage component; encrypt the separated annotation; and store the document information, the encrypted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.