Patent ID: 6964018

Claim:
A computer-implemented document editing processing apparatus for preparing a document by the inputting of a character string, comprising: displaying means for displaying characters and images; inputting means for inputting a character string in a document forming area in the display means; storage means having stored therein the multimedia information at least including a figure, image information, speech information and the moving picture information; a word dictionary in which reading data is associated with a displayed character and further the reading data is associated with a multimedia information identifier representing the multimedia information to be displayed; a multimedia information registration table in which a keyword associated with reading data in the word dictionary is associated with the multimedia information identifier; and retrieving means for executing forward coincidence retrieval on reading data of said word dictionary, with an undefined character as a retrieving condition, from one new character inputting processing by said inputting means to another, wherein if the multimedia information identifier is included in data extracted from the word dictionary as a result of retrieval by said retrieving means, the multimedia information as determined based on said multimedia information identifier is extracted from said storage means for demonstration on said display means as selectable conversion candidate data.