Method of and system for recording and researching documents

Abstract

A method of recording multiple kinds of documents successively while sorting them into plural document groups and then searching target document groups from the thus recorded document groups. Also provided is a system used for the realization of the aforementioned method. An illustrated title for identifying each document group and for discriminating the first document of each document group is recorded in an illustrated title recording medium which is separated from the document recording medium, and the correspondence between each illustrated title and the address of document groups identified by each illustrated title is recorded in an address recording medium so that access to target document groups, at the searching step, may be made by displaying all of the recorded illustrated titles and then designating one or more of illustrated titles selectively. The illustrated title is present on a partition plate interposed between respective document groups, or a reduced image or a portion of any one of the documents is defined to be used as the illustrated title by the partition plate or a discrimination mark attached on the first document of each document group.