Using PSE as a document management system

I used a program on my old computer with Windows Vista to file and organize scanned pdf documents. I could readily assign tags to a document, and then find the document using the tags. The tagging worked well. It was quick and intuitive.
I now have a new computer with Windows 7. I now realize that the program I used to tag documents will not run under Windows 7, and cannot be relied on to be useable in the future under Windows 15 or 20. So, I'm looking for a different system to file my electronic, scanned pdf documents that will be durable and long-lived, but not overly complicated or expensive. I'm dreading converting (probably meaning rekeying) approximately 1,500 documents filed in the old computer to a new filing system.
It occurred to me I could use Elements as a document management system. I could create a separate catalog for the filed documents, and use Elements to tag and find tagged documents. It wouldn't be as easy as the tagging system I had on my old computer, but my guess is that Adobe and Elements will be around for many years and are more likely to be functioning 5, 10 or 20 years from now. If it disappears, there is enough of a user base of Elements users that it seems likely there will be some means to convert from Elements documents to some other application using tags and captions.
Does this make sense? Has anyone else traveled this path?

Bobh123us wrote:
I used a program on my old computer with Windows Vista to file and organize scanned pdf documents. I could readily assign tags to a document, and then find the document using the tags. The tagging worked well. It was quick and intuitive.
Now can you tell us what this program was called so that we can tell you if there is an update for it to run on Windows 8.1.
PSE13 is for photos/images and it can tag them and sort them and you can do wonders with it but the learning curve is quite steep especially if you are not computer geek.  If you want to try it before spending any money then I suggest download a full trial version and run it free of charge for 30 days.  You can post questions here if you get stuck with it and people will try to help you with it.
The trial can be downloaded from this link:
<http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=photoshop_elements&loc=us>
Direct link is here:
<http://trials3.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/PSE/13_0_esd/win64/PhotoshopElements_13_Trial_LS25_ win64.exe>
Good luck.

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