Photo/Scanned image archival package for small Office?

[Grandma_DOG]

Who has a recommended package for archival?

I'm at a office that is about to get in hundreds of scanned images and b&w photos of legal documents each week from out of town sources. Ulitmately, tens of thousands of images.

I was hoping there was a really good package built that will let me index the photos in a database, let me give each photo metadata (tags?) as to what courthouse the document is from, deed book, page number, filing dates, and other relavent stuff.

Then have the ability to search this and dish up the image from any criteria I choose to search under.

Two interesting packages, DigiKam and zoph aren't really there. They focus more on 'photo as an artform' rather than 'photo as a database object to be filed'.

Any ideas?

[Dragonbite]

I'm interested in this as well.

In our office we have tons of legal documents that are placed in PDFs and even though we had a company scanning the documents into PDFs it was a nightmare.

I love our color copier.. it can scan full color into a PDF and email it to you! :)

[Grandma_DOG]

From hours of searching, the photography packages like digiKam don't really do true database work, the only field you can control is 'tags'.

DMS (document managment systems) aren't effective either because they focus on controlling rights to a document, not in its archival and recovery.

The OWL DMS may do it, but I have to get it working to see its true function.

An extention of my project, is I've got field agents in courthouses photographing documents. Ideally, there would be a nice application that would let them archive the photos into the system at the end of the day.