Patent US 5,835,922

In an apparatus for and a method of processing document information, according to a requirement of a writer of document information, the document information is generated, referenced, and re-constructed. Further, according to a requirement of a reader of the document information, the information is referenced and re-constructed. The apparatus includes a reader terminal including means for inputting a requirement of a reader of document information and means for outputting document information referenced and re-constructed according to the requirement, and a writer terminal for inputting therefrom a requirement of a writer of document information and creating document information. The apparatus further includes a document processing unit connected to the reader terminal and the writer terminal. The unit includes means for storing therein the document information produced by the writer terminal and processing means for referencing and re-constructing the stored document information according to the requirement of the user inputted from the reader terminal, thereby outputting therefrom the resultant document information.