These capabilities save the time and effort of pulling paper files or volumes off shelves, flipping pages, and replacing the files or volumes. Computers search out relevant passages better in situations where no citation points the way. Computers copy information easily and rapidly. As a result, they greatly reduce the bother of tracking paper file custody and coping with lost case files. Computers communicate well with each other which enables document retrieval and copying from remote locations .
Computerized documents require less physical space to store than paper.
For example, a document giving notice of an upcoming hearing could interact with computerized calendaring software. The filing of documents is often tracked in a database. In particular, documents initiating a criminal or divorce case are often packed with data gathered for demographic or criminal history purposes. In electronic form, documents transfer data into a database without the errors, high costs, and time lags associated with human data entry. In designing their electronic filing system, the Utah courts evaluated the following varying technological approaches for processing case files in an attempt to realize the foregoing objectives.