1. A method for processing a document image, the method comprising: segmenting the document image into a picture component and a non-picture component; identifying a text block in the non-picture component, wherein the background layer includes a background color for the text block in the non-picture component; for the non-picture component constructing a background layer, a chromatic layer and a monochrome mask; compressing at least a portion of the non-picture component; saving at least one of the compressed non-picture component and the compressed picture component in memory; and forming a recomposed image based on at least one of the compressed picture component and the compressed non-picture component.