DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

User characteristic information acquired from the login information of a user is stored as attribute information associated with the document information of a registered document. In accordance with login of the user, a document associated with the acquired user characteristic information is acquired based on the acquired user characteristic information and the stored user characteristic information. A display content to display pieces of information for identifying the acquired document is created. As the attribute information of the document, a weight representing the relevance between the document and each of a plurality of items included in the user characteristic information is stored in association with each other. A display content to classify, based on the weight of each item, the pieces of information for identifying the acquired document and display the information is created.