11. A document management system for managing a plurality of stored documents, said system comprising: a document maker, said document maker creating document records for each of a plurality of documents; a thumbnail rebuilder, said thumbnail rebuilder creating thumbnail representations of each page within a document; a central database storing said plurality of created documents therein, each document comprising a plurality of images for the respective pages therein and a corresponding plurality of image identification numbers, whereby said image identification numbers index said plurality of documents; a system journal, said system journal logging and tracking functions performed by the document image management system on said documents stored in said central database; and a user display device for displaying thereon at least one of said stored documents, said central database forwarding, pursuant to a given user query, a first page of said at least one document as a full image in a first file, and the remainder of pages for said at least one document in a second single file of thumbnail images, whereby when said given user of said user display device selects a given thumbnail image from said second single file of thumbnail images, the central database forwards the full image corresponding to said given thumbnail image.
11. A document management system for managing a plurality of stored documents, said system comprising: a document maker, said document maker creating document records for each of a plurality of documents; a thumbnail rebuilder, said thumbnail rebuilder creating thumbnail representations of each page within a document; a central database storing said plurality of created documents therein, each document comprising a plurality of images for the respective pages therein and a corresponding plurality of image identification numbers, whereby said image identification numbers index said plurality of documents; a system journal, said system journal logging and tracking functions performed by the document image management system on said documents stored in said central database; and a user display device for displaying thereon at least one of said stored documents, said central database forwarding, pursuant to a given user query, a first page of said at least one document as a full image in a first file, and the remainder of pages for said at least one document in a second single file of thumbnail images, whereby when said given user of said user display device selects a given thumbnail image from said second single file of thumbnail images, the central database forwards the full image corresponding to said given thumbnail image. 12. The document management system according to claim 11 , further comprising: a configuration element for providing speed and quality enhancements to processing image queries.