1. A method for electronically processing at least one document stored as an electronic document image containing undecoded text to identify a selected portion thereof, said method comprising the steps or: segmenting said at least one document image into words, each word having an undecoded textual content; classifying the textual content of at least some of said words relative to other said words, without decoding the words, based on an evaluation of predetermined morphological characteristics of said words; and selecting words for further processing according to the classification of said words obtained in said classifying step.