Document management

[Lars1]

I am brand new to access, so please be gentle

I have a lot of documents which i would like to register and save.
The documents are paper, so i need to scan them and save them.

I think i need at least 3 lists.
-Category 1 list
-Category 2 list
-List with all the final data

The list with all the final data should end up with this information::
-ID
-Date
-Category 1
-Category 2
-Batchnumber
-Link to File
-Filename
-Filetype

Is there a template that can halp me with this ?
How to build an input form to register the files with the above information ?
How to build a search form where i could search for a specific document from the final list ?
Search criteria should be:
-Category 1
-Batchnumber

Is it possible to scan directly from a form in Access, or should i save the files in a folder and link to them ?

Hope anyone could help me with this little project.

 

[Micron]

What is a list - a table?
Scan your documents as files (pdf, Word or whatever). Store them in directory folders. Find code that will loop through a directory and add the file path as a record in a table of file paths. Also would find code that lets you use msoFileDialogFilePicker to pick one-off files (for future use) to do what the dialog code will do as a batch operation. A single record view form can have a bound object control to show an actual document. User click can load that file in the native app. How or even if you intend to search for a given file I have no idea. If this is about document management related to some sort of quality system, I'd say you have a real hard task in front of you if you're an Access novice. I've done this so I might know a thing or two about it.