INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology for speed-up of document processing in an information processing device which processes hierarchized documents. SOLUTION: The information processing device has a plurality of document processing sections which perform predetermined processes on the hierarchized documents. Each document processing section has: a document reading means which reads the document; a process performing means which performs a predetermined process on the document read by the document reading means; and a control means, wherein the control means makes the other document processing section speculatively start a process on a part of the document on the basis of hierarchical characteristics of the document, and when the process for the part of the document is performed by the other document processing section, the control means makes the other document processing section discard the process performed by the other document processing section on the basis of hierarchical characteristics of the document. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT