Patent ID: 8001149

Claim:
A document managing system comprising: a document use controller that holds information about permission/inhibition of a use of an object document, the information comprising index use permit/inhibit information that determines whether or not contents of the object document are used as index information, the document use controller including: a managing unit that coordinates and manages an identifier of the object document, the index use permit/inhibit information that determines whether or not contents of the object document are used as index information, and an identifier of a storage document corresponding to the object document; and an instructing information transmitting unit that transmits instructing information including the identifier of the storage document coordinated with the index use permit/inhibit information to a document storage device in accordance with a change of the index use permit/inhibit information; and the document storage device that stores a plurality of storage documents including the storage document corresponding to the object document, the document storage device including: an index information holding unit that holds the index information including contents of the plurality of storage documents; an instructing information receiving unit that receives the instructing information transmitted from the document use controller; and an index information updating unit that updates the index information held by the index information holding unit, wherein the index information updating unit updates the index information to change permission/inhibition of a use of the contents of the storage document on the basis of the identifier of the storage document included in the instructing information received by the instructing information receiving unit.