Patent ID: 8570610

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising a processor configured to execute units comprising: a document acceptance unit that accepts a plurality of documents; a reduction and display unit that reduces and displays the documents accepted by the document acceptance unit; a region designation unit that designates a region within one of the documents displayed by the reduction and display unit; a region image creation unit that creates images corresponding to the region designated by the region designation unit for each of the documents accepted by the document acceptance unit based on a size of each of the documents displayed by the reduction and display unit; and a region image display unit that displays the images created by the region image creation unit in respective document positions corresponding to the documents displayed by the reduction and display unit, wherein: the region designation unit displays a shape as a region designation mark, a position of the region designation mark is manipulable to designate the region, the region designation unit designates the region within one of the documents in accordance with a manipulation of the region designation mark, the region image creation unit creates the images of the region designated by the region designation unit, during the manipulation of the region designation mark, and the region image display unit displays the images created by the region image creation unit of the region designated by the region designation unit, during the manipulation of the region designation mark.