Electrifying Image California's county recorders are leading the nation in a technology revolution. Business practices that have been in place for half a century are changing at county recorder's offices. Mountains of paper documents are being replaced by the electronic transmission and storage of vital county records. County recorders are responsible for reviewing and maintaining as many as 600 types of official documents, but typically deal with documents pertaining to land transactions.
Counties save time and money.
Citizens are served more efficiently. Two general types of electronic recording are currently in use in California. Orange County and San Bernardino County accept scanned documents in the form of digital images from local title companies over dedicated high-capacity phone lines. No paper is used. This generates the digital image of a recorded document that never actually exists as a hard copy, unless it is printed out.