Document creation device

A document creation device for combining a plurality of unit documents to create one organized document, comprising:

• a processor and a memory;
• a unit document storage unit which groups and stores unit documents having content embedded in defined regions;
• a management table storage unit that associates the defined regions and the order of the defined regions, and wherein the management table storage unit further includes means to search for information in the defined regions;
• a structure storage unit which stores an organized document structure serving as a list of unit documents required to generate one organized document from the unit documents;
• a document connection processing unit which acquires unit documents stored in the unit document storage unit based on the organized document structure and combines the unit documents into one organized document;
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• a reference replacement unit which analyzes the unit documents in the combined organized document, and when content embedded in a unit document within the one organized document includes a group reference designator which references a group of unit documents, replaces the group reference designator with a unit document reference designator which refers to a unit document which belongs to the referenced group and which is contained in the selected organized document structure.