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A method and apparatus for analyzing a picture of an effluent such as a smoke plume or dust cloud to determine the opacity of the effluent. The picture of the effluent is first broken down into pixels. Each pixel corresponding to the effluent is identified and the color of each effluent pixel is ana

A method and apparatus for analyzing a picture of an effluent such as a smoke plume or dust cloud to determine the opacity of the effluent. The picture of the effluent is first broken down into pixels. Each pixel corresponding to the effluent is identified and the color of each effluent pixel is analyzed to calculate the opacity of that effluent pixel. An opacity value for the entire effluent is extrapolated based on the opacity values of each effluent pixel.

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A method and apparatus for analyzing a picture of an effluent such as a smoke plume or dust cloud to determine the opacity of the effluent. The picture of the effluent is first broken down into pixels. Each pixel corresponding to the effluent is identified and the color of each effluent pixel is ana

A method and apparatus for analyzing a picture of an effluent such as a smoke plume or dust cloud to determine the opacity of the effluent. The picture of the effluent is first broken down into pixels. Each pixel corresponding to the effluent is identified and the color of each effluent pixel is analyzed to calculate the opacity of that effluent pixel. An opacity value for the entire effluent is extrapolated based on the opacity values of each effluent pixel. steps of: generating a contact record associated with a digital document and storing the contact record on a contact database; identifying a routing designation on the digital document, the routing designation indicative of an association between the digital document and digital documents previously received; and transmitting the digital document to a destination based upon the routing designation. 13. The method of claim 12, further comprising the step of identifying at least one key word on the digital document to be placed in a field in the contact record. 14. The method of claim 12, wherein the step of identifying at least one key word on the digital document to be placed in a field in the contact record further comprises the step of performing a character recognition routine on the digital document. 15. The method of claim 12, wherein the step of identifying a routing designation on the digital document further comprises the step of determining the routing designation by forming an association between at least one keyword from the digital document and a number of associative variables stored in the memory. 16. The method of claim 12, further comprising the step of searching the contact database for a contact record that meets a predefined statistical criteria. 17. The system of claim 1 wherein the contact management logic is further operable to determine key field values indicative of a sequence of previously received digital documents and to: write an indication of the key field values in the contact record; associate the contact record with other contact records having corresponding key field values to identify associations between the contact records; and store the digital documents and corresponding contact records in the contact database according to the associations. 18. The system of claim 17 wherein the resource management logic is further operable to determine a routing designation indicative of an agent and to: identify, from the key fields, a particular customer corresponding to the current digital document determine, from the key fields in the contact records, a sequence of previously received digital documents corresponding to the current digital document; and compute, from the associations between the contact records in the sequence, an agent having prior dealings with the particular customer. 19. The system of claim 7 wherein the means for generating a contact record is further operable to determine key field values indicative of a sequence of previously received digital documents and to: write an indication of the key field values in the contact record; associate the contact record with other contact records having corresponding key field values to identify associations between the contact records; and store the digital documents and corresponding contact records in the contact database according to the associations. 20. The system of claim 19 wherein the means for identifying a routing designation is further operable to determine a routing designation indicative of an agent and to: identify, from the key fields, a particular customer corresponding to the current digital document determine, from the key fields in the contact records, a sequence of previously received digital documents corresponding to the current digital document; and compute, from the associations between the contact records in the sequence, an agent having prior dealings with the particular customer. 21. The method of claim 12 wherein the contact management logic is further operable to determine key fields indicative of a sequence of previously received digital documents and generating the contact record further comprises: writing an indication of the key field values in the contact record; associating the contact record with other contact records having corresponding key field values to compute associations between the contact records; and storing the digital documents and corresponding contact r