Patent ID: 8429529

Claim:
A proofreading device to which proofreader's marks are able to be input, the proof reading device comprising: a display section configured to display a document; a user attribute identification section configured to identify an attribute of a user who has logged in the proofreading device; a storage section configured to store: at least two proofreader's mark sets, with each proofreader's mark set being in correspondence to the attribute of the user, the at least two proofreader's mark sets including: a first proofreader's mark set which has a plurality of proofreader's marks according to a first proofreader's mark rule; and a second proofreader's mark set which has a plurality of proofreader's marks according to a second proofreader's mark rule different from the first proofreader's mark rule; and an intermediate mark set which includes a plurality of intermediate marks for making the proofreader's marks having the same meaning among the plurality of proofreader's mark sets correspond to each other; a proofreader's-mark-set selection section configured to select a proofreader's mark set corresponding to the attribute of the user identified by the user attribute identification section, from the at least two proofreader's mark sets; and a proofreader's mark conversion section configured to recognize a first proofreader's mark added to a document by a first user; then convert the first proofreader's mark into the intermediate mark, and configured to store the converted intermediate mark, as a first intermediate mark, in the storage section in association with the document, wherein when a second user has logged in the proofreading device, the proofreader's mark conversion section converts as a second proofreader's mark the stored first intermediate mark into a second proofreader's mark of the proofreader's mark set selected by the proofreader's-mark-set selection section on the basis of a attribute of the second user, and causes the display section to display the second proofreader's mark together with the document.