Batch file to create folders and subfolders and copy files into them - windows

I need to copy any pdf files with the word "approved" in the file name from here:
C:\Projects\Project_1\
C:\Projects\Project_2\
To here:
C:\Attachments\Project_1\Documents\
C:\Attachments\Project_2\Documents\
The batch file needs to create the project folder as well as 2 subfolders, "Documents" and "Images" and put the corresponding pdf files in the "Documents" folder.
I created a simple batch file using xcopy but I cannot figure out a way to put the pdfs into a subfolder.
xcopy "C:\Projects\Project_1*approved*" "C:\Attachments\" /s /d /y

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