PURPOSE: To speedily and properly sets a circulation route according to the contents of a document and to speedily and properly process the circulated document according to its contents.

CONSTITUTION: A CPU 105 executes a document filing program 100 to perform a document circulating process and a script selecting process. In the document circulating process, circulation route information wherein an index and a circulation route are made to correspond to each other is stored, a key word corresponding to the index of the circulation route information is acquired from the document to be circulated, and a circulation route through which the document is actually circulated is estimated from the circulation route information and key word. In the script selecting process, script information wherein indexes and scripts are made to correspond to each other is stored, user by user, a key word corresponding to the index of the script information is obtained from the document to be circulated, and a script to actually be executed is selected, for every circular receiver, from the script information and key word, thereby processing the document on the basis of the selected script. Consequently, electronic documents can efficiently be field.