4. A document image processing method, comprising the steps of; machine scanning a document and forming a plurality of digital images that correspond to said document, detecting anomalous conditions that may occur relating to said machine scanning, defining a plurality of digital image quality parameters, machine calculating an image suspiciousness value for each of said plurality of digital images based upon said parameters and said detected anomalous conditions, machine calculating a document suspiciousness value based upon said parameters and said calculated image suspiciousness values, using a machine to make a document accept/reject decision based upon said document suspiciousness value, repeating said method steps to thereby continue said scanning of documents independent of the results of said document accept/reject decisions for each scanned document, when a document-relect decision has been made, providing machine rescan of said rejected document, using a machine to assemble a plurality of digital images from a plurality of documents for which a document-accept decision has been made into a data group that contains an index defining the storage location within said data group of said plurality of digital images, storing said data group in a digital storage device, said storing step including identifying the storage location of each data group that is stored in said digital storage device, using a machine to convert the digital images corresponding to a document for which a document-relect decision has been made into visual images, providing review of said visual images by a human operator, and changing said digital image quality parameters so as to produce future correspondence between said machine accept/reject decision step and said operator visual review.
5. The method of claim 4 including the step of; using a machine to retrieve at least one digital image of a selected document from said digital storage device by defining the storage location of the data group containing said selected document, using a machine to fetch said index of said data group from said digital storage device, using a machine to read the storage location of said selected document from said fetched index, and using said read storage location to machine fetch said at least one digital image of said selected document from said digital storage device.