Patent ID: 7536649

Claim:
An information specification system coupled to a network, comprising: a server to store a document including specific word information; and a mobile information specification apparatus connected to the server via the network, comprising: a display to display an electronic document; an image input mechanism to acquire 2-dimensional code information by imaging the 2-dimensional code information including specification information printed on the paper document; a document specification mechanism to specify the electronic document corresponding to specification information by transmitting specification information to specify the document stored in the server; a document information communication acquisition mechanism to receive a document specified by specification information included in the 2-dimensional code information; a character input mechanism to input character strings; a candidate information extractor to search and extract a word that includes the character strings from all words in the electronic document as candidate words; a candidate information display to display the candidate words; and a candidate information selector to choose desired word information from the candidate words displayed on the candidate information display.