Information processing apparatus and method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

An information processing method comprising:

• checking whether or not a position of a user is outside the premises of an organization to which the user belongs;
• obtaining, if it is checked that the position of the user is outside the premises, information that specifies documents which are stored in a document management device disposed on the premises and which are allowed to be used by the user, instead of obtaining the content of the documents;
• presenting a list of the documents to the user;
• selecting a document from among the documents in the list in accordance with a selecting operation performed by the user;
• obtaining the content of the selected document from the document management device disposed on the premises;
• and
• providing the obtained content of the document to an output device which outputs the content of the document.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

• checking whether or not a position of a user is outside the premises of an organization to which the user belongs;
• obtaining, if it is checked that the position of the user is outside the premises, information that specifies documents which are stored in a document management device disposed on the premises and which are allowed to be used by the user, instead of obtaining the content of the documents;
• presenting a list of the documents to the user;
• selecting a document from among the documents in the list in accordance with a selecting operation performed by the user;
• obtaining the content of the selected document from the document management device disposed on the premises;
• and
• providing the obtained content of the document to an output device which outputs the content of the document.