Patent ID: 7957017

Claim:
A document managing apparatus comprising: a determining unit which determines whether a document print image can be generated or not if process of generating a display image is not performed on a document stored in a file storage unit, the data file constituting the document which is a managing target; an application start-up unit which starts up an application program according to the document if the determining unit determines that the document print image cannot be generated; a screen dump generating unit which generates a screen dump of each page of the document entered as the file in the file storage unit based on the document displayed on a display unit by the application program started by the application start-up unit; a final page determining unit which determines whether the screen dump is a final page in the document or not, the screen dump being generated by the screen dump generating unit; and a page changing unit which changes the document displayed on the display unit to a next page in order to generate the screen dump of the next page if the final page determining unit determines that the screen dump is not the final page.