1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a generation unit configured to generate, in a case that an object is extracted from an input document, object data including a word indicating a characteristic of the object and store the generated word in a storage area; a storage unit configured to store a table holding the word indicating a characteristic of the object associated with a degradation level; and a degradation unit configured to determine, in a case that the information processing apparatus performs output processing using the object, whether the word indicating a characteristic of the object is associated with the degradation level, and if it is determined that the word indicating the characteristic of the object is associated with the degradation level, to degrade the object according to the degradation level corresponding to the word indicating the characteristic of the object.