An objective of the present invention is to provide a document creation assistance server and document creation assistance method which are capable of efficiently acquiring information necessary to write a specification or other such documents, and of generating a document from the acquired information. According to an embodiment, this document creation assistance server for assisting with the creation of a document comprises: a final product identification part for accepting identification information for identifying a final product generated by synthesizing a plurality of chemical compounds; a chemical equation acquisition part for referring to electronic experiment note data which provides an electronic record of the details of an experiment relating to the synthesis of the chemical compounds, and acquiring a chemical equation for generating the final product associated with the accepted identification information; and a document generation part for generating a document including the acquired chemical equation.