FIELD: computer engineering. SUBSTANCE: system has document acquisition and processing device as well as document and address memory. It also has subscriber control devices, document indexing devices, and index memory. Data retrieval device is made for receiving search index images and search requests coming from subscriber control devices, converting search requests to index image, comparing it with index images of index memory, retrieving addresses of documents corresponding to index image of subscriber request, ranking chosen addresses according to their correspondence to index image of subscriber request, and forming list of found documents including their addresses in computer network according to mentioned subscriber request. EFFECT: enlarged functional capabilities and improved efficiency of hardware use. 8 dwg
