The management system comprises a set of specialized operational units with an
acquisition module, a multimedia database, indexing and search agents that can
be subdivided into subagents, an agent dedicated to managing information relating
to the structure of documents, a module for analyzing and structuring document
components, a user interface including a document indexing interface and a document
search interface, a module for creating a multimedia database, and a module for
opening a session. The management system also comprises a set of specialized functional
units with an agent for arranging the various units of the system, agents for driving
document indexing and searching, and an identifier manager. A platform provides
interconnection and intercommunication between the specialized operational functional units.