16. The system as claimed in claim 10 , wherein said network citizen is a network multi-function device.
10. A system for distilling information from a hard copy business card to generate a structured electronic file having the distilled information therein, comprising: a network citizen having a platen area, said network citizen electronically scanning the platen area, having a business card thereon, to create a bitmap of the scanned platen area; and a network processor, operatively connected to said network citizen, said network processor segmenting the bitmap of the scanned platen area, received from said network citizen, into a bitmap object, the bitmap object corresponding to the scanned business card; said network processor converting the bitmap object into a block of text and processing the block of text to generate a structured representation of semantic entities corresponding to the scanned business card; said network processor converting the structured representation into a structure text file.