Austin Bay Blog: "I heard several rumors in Iraq, from friends of mine, about the quantity of intelligence material we captured. (See the quote below from the Weekly Standard Stephen Hayes’ article, referencing “two million” items.) Here is the essence of a memorable if short conversation I had with a young intelligence officer in June 2004: “Colonel Bay, we have so much stuff we can’t even store it, much less start to process it.”"

I really don't know why the USA isn't scanning it into digital forms, sending it to the USA, and farming out smart OCR programs to convert images to text.

Then have automatic Arabic > English translation programs, to get initial translations of the text.

A million bucks or so should be enough to do most of this.