4. The method of claim 1 , wherein corresponding collateral information fields in the plurality of UCC financing statements are filled with either markup language data, images, or no information, and wherein the machine-collecting the collateral information includes automatically retrieving the filled markup language data or converting the filled images to a searchable digital text form, and entering the collateral information into respective records.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein corresponding collateral information fields in the plurality of UCC financing statements are filled with either markup language data, images, or no information, and wherein the machine-collecting the collateral information includes automatically retrieving the filled markup language data or converting the filled images to a searchable digital text form, and entering the collateral information into respective records. 5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the machine-collecting further includes flagging any UCC financing statements that contain no information in their collateral information fields and manually obtaining collateral information for the UCC financing statements having no information in their collateral information fields and entering the manually obtained collateral information into the respective records.