We have a pile of paperwork in the front room - electricity bills, bank statements, tax credit stuff, the usual. Every time I need to find something in there, it takes me FREAKING AGES to find what I want. I was searching through for something today when BAM! I suddenly had the amazingly revolutionary idea that I should keep all of this stuff electronically.

I know I can easily scan it all to PDF but I'm after something a bit more dedicated. Does anyone know of any document archiving software, something like a database that lets me group scans by type and date, that sort of thing? I want it so I've got my water bills, bank statements, insurance papers all in a hierarchy and text searchable, so I can just look at the Insurance tree to see what docs I've got, then what date they were written etc - just click on a tree on the left pane and see the doc large in the right.

Freeware preferred, I often find it better!