1. A method of processing information items, said method comprising the steps of: for an information item comprising primarily text information: a) analysing text information of said information item to detect a set of constituent information elements relating to said information item; b) detecting for each of said set of constituent information elements a respective degree of relative significance based on at least one of a frequency anda nature of occurrence of the constituent information elements with respect to that information item; c) selecting a subset of at least two most significant constituent information elements; and d) generating a pseudo-image representative of said information item, said representative pseudo-image comprising said selected subset of constituent information elements arranged in a predetermined image layout such that: d.1) a most significant constituent information element of said subset is represented with most prominence and at a first predetermined region within said representative pseudo-image; and d.2) one or more other constituent information element(s) of said subset are represented at other predetermined regions of said representative pseudo-image in dependence on the corresponding degree of relative significance of those element(s).