So. I just saw that movie, Spotlight.
There's a scene, where they're doing "research"..
Working backwards from the priests' directory, to pattern match priests who were moved around alot from parish to parish, thus matching their profile for the "problem-ed priest"
What's really confusing is, this is a major newspaper handling the case, How come they didn't use OCR software, and then had this done in like all of maybe 4 hours, given the tiny data set they're working with.