Patent ID: 8539591
Filing Date: 2013-09-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A document management system, comprising: a management device that manages unique identification information and confidentiality level information, each of which correspond to a component of a plurality of components in an electronic document or in a paper document, the electronic document or the paper document having the plurality of components that are at least one of a graphic, a table, an image, and a text; a setting device that sets the unique identification information to each component of the plurality of components included in the electronic document or included in the paper document; an instruction receiving device that receives an instruction from a user to print the electronic document or an instruction from the user to read the paper document; an authority information receiving device that receives authority information of the user; a confidentiality level information obtainment device that obtains the confidentiality level information corresponding to each component of the plurality of components of the electronic document or the paper document; and a confidentiality processing device that performs image processing on each component of the plurality of components of the electronic document or the paper document based on a comparison between the confidentiality level information corresponding to the unique identification information of the component and the authority information of the user, wherein the setting device sets the unique identification information to each component of the plurality of components after the image processing is completed by the confidentiality processing device.