SYSTEMS, PROCESSES, AND PRODUCTS FOR STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF PHYSICAL PAPER DOCUMENTS, ELECTRO-OPTICALLY GENERATED ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS, AND COMPUTER GENERATED ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS

A storage system is provided for paper and electronic documents. Electronic documents include electronic image documents and electronic work documents, which may be completely unrelated in form or content, are acquired or produced to provide one or more real time sequences of electronic documents in one or more real time sequences of date/time instances. Acquired or produced physical documents, for ultimate convenience, simply are added to the front (or the back) of one or more cumulative physical stack. The resulting electronic records of a database, with assured precision, uniquely identify the physical locations of the physical documents and the electronic locations of the electronic documents, both in terms of their associated date/time instances. In effect, these date/time instances guarantee that virtual sets of related physical documents may be conveniently accessed and physically retrieved, and that corresponding sets of related electronic documents may be immediately displayed and suitably presented.