1. A method for routing a confirmation of receipt of a facsimile or portion thereof, comprising: analyzing text of a facsimile for at least one of a meaning and a context of the text; recognizing one or more global document features of the facsimile based at least in part on the analysis; comparing at least one recognized global document feature in the facsimile to a plurality of known document types; routing one or more confirmations to one or more destinations based at least in part on the analysis and the comparison; and determining a type of information contained within each physical area of significance and each logical area of significance; wherein the global document features comprise physical areas of significance and logical areas of significance, and wherein the determining does not utilize any OCR techniques.
14. A method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising dynamically modifying one or more characteristics of a knowledge base, wherein the each of the plurality of known document types is described by one or more of the characteristics.