Patent ID: 7363580

Claim:
A computer document information management system that prepares a medium form from a hypertext, comprising: a hypertext preparing unit for preparing the hypertext; a file unit for storing therein hypertexts prepared by said hypertext preparing unit and correlated information files correlated to each other through link structure of said hypertexts; a medium form information preparing unit for receiving said hypertext, preparing image extraction information from the hypertext for printing, preparing particular described information as well as linkage information for linking said described information to a correlated information file in said file unit from information having link structure, and preparing medium form information by synthesizing said image extraction information, described information, and linkage information; a medium form output unit for printing said medium form information on recording paper and outputting the recording paper as a medium form; a selection information adding unit for adding selection information for selecting a desired described information from those printed on said medium form; a reader for reading said selection information and linkage information from said medium form with the selection information added via said selection information adding unit; a retrieving unit for retrieving an appropriate correlated information file from said file unit according to the selection information as well as linkage information read by said reader; and an output unit for outputting the correlated information file retrieved by said retrieving unit; wherein said linkage information includes described position information indicating a described position of each described information on said medium form and description recognizing information for recognizing described information described at a position indicated by said described position information, and said retrieving unit has an intermediate address table for converting said description recognizing information to an address of said correlated information file.