Patent ID: 8749577
Filing Date: 2014-06-10
Classification: G06F,G09G

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus configured to process document data of a plurality of documents, the information processing apparatus comprising: an extracting unit configured to extract a plurality of object data corresponding to each of parts of the document data; a storage unit configured to store the plurality of object data extracted by the extracting unit and attribute information of the plurality of object data in relation to each other; a searching unit configured to search for first object data correlated to attribute information that matches with a search condition input by a user from the plurality of object data stored by the storage unit; a selection unit configured to select, based on a characteristic of the user, second object data from a plurality of other object data extracted from the document data corresponding to the first object data found through the search by the searching unit; a merging unit configured to merge the first object data found through the search by the searching unit to the selected second object data based on the characteristic of the user; and a control unit configured to control to display, as a search result, merged data into which a plurality of the object data are merged by the merging unit, wherein the control unit controls to display different search results when users having different user characteristics input the same search condition.