Patent Document ID: 8233193
Application ID: 12414594

Base Claim:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a document editing program for causing a computer to edit an electronic document including a plurality of hierarchically arranged objects, the program making a computer execute: extracting an object from the electronic document including the plurality of hierarchically arranged objects representing one of a text, an image, a drawing and a table; determining whether the extracted object is superimposed by a user specified area serving as a masking area of a target document input by a user; and converting, into different information, information included in an area of the object determined to be superimposed by the user specified area.

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Claim 3:
3. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a document editing program according to claim 1 , the program making the computer further execute creating, after converting, into the different information, the information included in an area of each of the objects determined to be superimposed by the user specified area, a processed electronic document by combining the converted information into the same layout as the object prior to being extracted.