The Colorado Sun: Wuuummmmmmm goes the sound of the oversized scanner taking an image of old real estate records stored at the Arapahoe County administrative building. A worker patiently waits to flip the next page of a giant book more than 100 years old. After scanning it, he checks to see if the image was clean and in focus. 

Check. Flip. Whuuummmmmmm. Repeat.

Day in, day out for three weeks in September 2021, employees from US Imaging camped out at the county records office in Littleton and worked around the clock to digitize analog land records and marriage licenses dating to 1861.

It took a few more years using software to improve the images, but last week, county officials announced the job was finally done. Some 6.5 million images and pages and 3.5 million recorded documents had been scanned and checked for legibility.

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