Abstract: An electronic document management system automatically scanning a batch of related documents separated into a plurality of document groupings. A workstation automatically separates the batch of scanned documents into separate documents. A workstation display provides a display of information for each document. An operator identifies portions of information to selectively scan to provide document indexing information and to obtain text based captured information from each document. The text based captured information is used to create an image file for each document and a text file for the batch. The text file comprises the text based captured information and references to each image file. The text file is used to control loading of data relating to the documents into a database and control transfer of the image file for each document into one or both of the file storage and the database. An e-mail is sent to a predetermined group of users to identify scanned and stored documents.