16. A system for distilling information from a hard copy business document to determine routing information for forwarding of an electronic version of business document to a destination associated with an addressee of the hard copy business document, comprising: a digital network scanner to electronically scan a platen area, having a business document thereon, to create a bitmap of the scanned platen area; and a network server operatively connected to said digital network scanner; said network server converting the bitmap into a block of data, the block of data including lines of text, position information, text size information, and line separators; said network server segmenting the block of data into text lines, separators, and region objects; said network server assigning a lexical type to the segmented text lines based upon a predetermined set of regular expressions; said network server identifying, within the block of data, addressee information, using the assigned lexical type information and a stochastic context-free grammar model; said network server determining routing information corresponding to a destination associated with the identified addressee information; said network server forwarding the electronic version of the scanned business document to the destination associated with an addressee of the hard copy business document.
16. A system for distilling information from a hard copy business document to determine routing information for forwarding of an electronic version of business document to a destination associated with an addressee of the hard copy business document, comprising: a digital network scanner to electronically scan a platen area, having a business document thereon, to create a bitmap of the scanned platen area; and a network server operatively connected to said digital network scanner; said network server converting the bitmap into a block of data, the block of data including lines of text, position information, text size information, and line separators; said network server segmenting the block of data into text lines, separators, and region objects; said network server assigning a lexical type to the segmented text lines based upon a predetermined set of regular expressions; said network server identifying, within the block of data, addressee information, using the assigned lexical type information and a stochastic context-free grammar model; said network server determining routing information corresponding to a destination associated with the identified addressee information; said network server forwarding the electronic version of the scanned business document to the destination associated with an addressee of the hard copy business document. 18. The system as claimed in claim 16 , wherein the destination associated with an addressee of the hard copy business document is a location on a network drive.