Patent ID: 8245313

Claim:
A document management system to manage a document displayed on an information processing terminal, comprising: a first processing unit configured to recognize a document specified by a user; a second processing unit configured to recognize an identifier to identify the user or a department to which the user belongs; and an image processing unit configured to prepare a combined image as a single image including the specified document recognized by the first processing unit and the identifier recognized by the second processing unit while adjusting the arrangement so as to lessen an overlap of the specified document and the identifier on the single image, and configured to enable the information processing terminal to display the single image, wherein the image processing unit comprises: a first image processing unit configured to prepare a first image containing the document recognized by the first processing unit, a second image processing unit configured to prepare a second image containing the identifier recognized by the second processing unit, an image synthesizing unit configured to synthesize the first image prepared by the first image processing unit and the second image prepared by the second image processing unit; and an image output unit configured to enable the information processing terminal to display the image synthesized by the image synthesizing unit.