Patent ID: 7930634

Claim:
A document display apparatus to extract a document element constituting a document and enlarges and displays the extracted document element, the document display apparatus comprising: a memory; a document display unit to display the document element in a first display area; a document element selection detection unit to detect selection of the document element displayed by the document display unit; a selected document display unit to display the document element detected by the document element selection detection unit in a second display area different from the first display area; a character element determination unit to determine whether the document element detected by the document element selection detection unit is a character element; a character image determination unit to determine whether the document element determined to be a character element by the document element selection detection unit is a character image; and a character number determination unit to determine whether a number of characters per one line in the second display area before enlarge display is greater than a number of characters per one line in the second display area after the enlarge display with respect to the character image determined to be a character image by the character image determination unit, wherein the selected document element display unit displays the character image in the second display area by folding the character image when enlarging and displaying the character image if the character number determination unit determines that the number of characters per one line in the second display area before enlarge display is greater than the number of characters per one line in the second display area after the enlarge display.