You’re talking about people who spent billions of dollars and millions of man hours building the non-functional Obamacare website.
That was a major undertaking. The website was just a pretty face on a gargantuan database project. Major financial institutions have scrapped system updates costing hundreds of millions of dollars before, and they were trivial compared to a from-the-ground-up project like Obamacare. By comparison, converting printed text to searchable digital bits is a really trivial exercise.
In the worst case, you hire 100 contractors with security clearance at $10K a month for 30 days and have them transcribe 20 pages a day. Buy them brand new computers at $1000 each at some refurbed warehouse and have them beaver away. Total cost: $1.3m, including $200K to get the warehouse habitable.