This document, like so many other legal documents, has been scanned in.

I assume this is how it was delivered to and archived by the court, and not just a scribd artifact.

The document was almost certainly produced on a computer, but it is archived as a scanned in document. The downloadable pdf is not searchable, the downloadable txt is useless.

Scanning legal documents encourages errors (the document is tilted), and makes OCR and searching difficult for the average layman consumer of legal documents (that is in many cases, the plaintiffs and defendants) that do not have access to cheap, accurate OCR.

When will it be expected that legal documents archived by a court will be normally available to the public in "machine readable", searchable, full text behind the image, cut-and-paste form?

In my own experience, the ability to use simple, command line based, text searches to hunt through collections of legal documents is invaluable.