13. A method of controlling mail processing equipment of a mail processing system used to process one document of a plurality of documents, the one having minutiae extracted from an electronic file associated with the document, the method comprising the following steps: processing a printed representation of the document on mail processing equipment, the processing including at least capturing of an image of the printed representation of the document; extracting image minutiae from the captured image; comparing the image minutiae with the minutiae for positively identifying the document; and utilizing control data associated with the document to control operation of the mail processing equipment in response to positively identifying the document, wherein: the minutiae and the image minutiae are a plurality of document characteristics, the plurality of document characteristics are selected from a combination of two or more of font, pitch, key word, numerical sequence, symbol, phrase and coordinates of an area of interest on the document, the document characteristics individually are insufficient to uniquely identify the document from a second document, but the combination of the two or more document characteristics are sufficient to uniquely identify the one document from the second document, and the mail processing system is either an inserter system or sorter system.
13. A method of controlling mail processing equipment of a mail processing system used to process one document of a plurality of documents, the one having minutiae extracted from an electronic file associated with the document, the method comprising the following steps: processing a printed representation of the document on mail processing equipment, the processing including at least capturing of an image of the printed representation of the document; extracting image minutiae from the captured image; comparing the image minutiae with the minutiae for positively identifying the document; and utilizing control data associated with the document to control operation of the mail processing equipment in response to positively identifying the document, wherein: the minutiae and the image minutiae are a plurality of document characteristics, the plurality of document characteristics are selected from a combination of two or more of font, pitch, key word, numerical sequence, symbol, phrase and coordinates of an area of interest on the document, the document characteristics individually are insufficient to uniquely identify the document from a second document, but the combination of the two or more document characteristics are sufficient to uniquely identify the one document from the second document, and the mail processing system is either an inserter system or sorter system. 19. The method of claim 13 , wherein the minutiae and the image minutiae are a plurality of document characteristics selected from font, pitch, key word, numerical sequence, symbol and phrase.