Method and system for retrieving and presenting stored digital images

A method and system for retrieving and presenting or displaying digital images on a portion of an operator's workstation where another portion may be simultaneously displaying a conventional application. The image display system includes a mechanism for browsing images at a speed and in a direction through the ordered images chosen by the operator, much like an operator might browse through successive images on microfilm in prior art systems. The direction of image scrolling is operator selectable and the selections may be entered at a workstation keyboard or from another application, so the operator may move forward through the ordered archive of images until the operator finds a key document, then move backward and forward slowly until the images of the document answer the questions or it is determined that the images will not answer it. When a specific image is displayed, the operator can zoom in, magnify, look at the other views of the document, print the image or take other action as appropriate, using the present system.