Patent ID: 8555152

Claim:
A document management system, comprising: an information management unit for storing document information of an e-document printable on paper; an input unit for accepting pen stroke information written on said paper and transferring said information to said information management unit; and a computing unit, wherein, upon creating a paste document on paper by pasting a paste-from printed document that is part or whole of a first e-document printed matter on a paste-to printed document that is a second e-document printed matter, said computing unit detects a paste stroke made over said paste-from printed document and said paste-to printed document from a pen stroke inputted from said input unit, where the paste stroke is a set of line segments, each of which goes through one or more sides of said paste-from printed document on said paste-to printed document, wherein said computing unit detects, as a pasting work, said paste-from printed document, said paste-to printed document and a paste position of said paste-from printed document on said paste-to printed document from a set of said detected paste strokes, and wherein said computing unit stores said paste-from printed document, said paste-to printed document, and said paste position information that are related to each other as paste information with respect to said detected pasting work.