Document processor

Abstract

A document processing apparatus that automatically carries out a transmission operation at the time of a link selection, which selects a telephone number described in the link information without carrying out a useless operation. The link information is the additional information which is not actually displayed, like as the HTML. The document processing apparatus includes a receiver for receiving the document; a link information extractor for extracting the link information from the document; a display for displaying the document based on the link information extracted by the link information extractor; a selector for selecting the link information in the document; and a link operator controller for carrying out the transmission operation to another party when the link information selected by the selector is the telephone number information.

What is claimed is:  
     
         1 . A document processing apparatus, comprising: 
 a receiving means for receiving a document including a telephone number information and at least one link information different from the telephone number information in the document content; and    a link information extraction means for extracting the telephone number information and the link information different from the telephone number information from the document received by said receiving means,    wherein said link information extraction means extracts the telephone number information and the link information different from the telephone number information in a predetermined priority.    
     
     
         2 . The document processing apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising: 
 a display means for displaying the document based on the link information extracted by said link information extraction means;    a selection means for selecting the link information in the document; and    a link operation control means for carrying out the transmission operation to the other party shown by the telephone number information, when the link information selected by said selection means is the telephone number information.