Patent ID: 8176025
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus for storing and retrieving a document having images and texts in and from a document storage unit, comprising: a partial image extracting unit configured to extract partial images from input documents; a document registering unit configured to store the input documents and the partial images extracted by the partial image extracting unit in the document storage unit; a meta information setting unit configured to associate a given one of the input documents with the partial images of the given one of the input documents to generate meta information indicative of the association regarding the given one of the input documents; a search unit configured to search for and retrieve one of the input documents as a first document from the document storage unit to display the first document on a display unit; and a user interface unit configured to perform an operation with respect to a partial image of the first document displayed on the display unit in response to an external instruction, wherein the meta information setting unit is configured to add copy-source information indicative of the partial image of the first document to the meta information regarding a second document of the input documents when the user interface unit copies the partial image of the first document and pastes the copied partial image onto the second document.