1. A computerized method of generating an information display from an input of publication files containing text, graphics, and other data viewable as page images of a publication having stories (text passages) and graphics images appearing therein, comprising the steps of: extracting text data from the publication files corresponding to stories appearing in the page images of the publication, and maintaining them as text data files; processing page images from the publication files and maintaining them as page image files; mapping story areas for respective stories appearing in the page images and indexing each story area to a text data file corresponding to the text passage in the story area, and maintaining the mapped story areas as image map files; and generating a display on a computer system of page images using the page image files, and linking the stories in the story areas of the displayed page images to the corresponding text data using the text data files and image map files.