To scan and store images in database.

Hello,
We have to build a patient care project wherein about 1 million records are to be stored. These records have personal info regarding patient's name, social security no, Address etc.
Each of these records have about 5 to 10 documents, which could be his photograph, His medical history etc. These documents have to be scanned and stored as an image in the database. These will be fetched when queried based on his social security number. Apart from querying there is no other function involved. Whole thing is to be built on ORACLE. Help required regarding this project.
Is it possible from Oracle forms 5.0 environment, to start a scanner automatically and scan the pages one by one and store it in the database.That way the primary key,i.e.Social security number will be associated with the respective documents. .If anyone of you have handled a similar project please do let us know how to handle this?

We have oracle 8.0 installed on NT4.0.
Thanks in advance
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