Digitizing printed output isn’t rocket science. Google did it for Google Books, many of which are scanned from actual books and converted to searchable text. It shouldn’t cost a lot either, but the White House will probably drag its feet and find all kinds of reasons why it can’t get the job done, and why it can’t allow Congress access to those e-mails.
You’re talking about people who spent billions of dollars and millions of man hours building the non-functional Obamacare website.