1. A method of processing information from a diversity of hard copy documents, said method comprising the steps of: (a) receiving output representing a diversity of hard copy documents from an automated digitizing unit and storing information from said diversity of hard copy documents into a memory, said information not fixed from one document to the next; (b) identifying portions of said hard copy documents corresponding to a first variable; and (c) storing information from said portions of said hard copy documents corresponding to said first variable into memory locations for said first variable.