According to news reports Hillary handed over the emails to the Dept. of State as hard copies. These were then processed by them into PDFs including doing OCR.

According to news reports Hillary handed over the emails to the Dept. of State as hard copies. These were then processed by them into PDFs including doing OCR. http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/11/technology/security/hillary-email-paper/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/11/technology/security/hillary-... Edit: Hilarious part was where State says this is not a problem because "it would have to print Clinton's emails in the normal review process."