Document management system, method and program therefor

摘要

To provide a technology that can contribute to improvements in convenience in document management by enabling management in units of component elements of contents of documents to be managed. The system is provided with: an extraction unit that extracts component elements forming contents of a document to be managed from the document; an association unit that associates predetermined metadata characterizing the component elements with the component elements extracted in the extraction unit; and a registration unit that registers information on the component elements and metadata associated in the association unit.