Florida courts hit a daily record for electronic filings in November, but lawyers continued to file scanned PDF documents instead of the preferred text-based PDF/A versions, according to information presented to the Florida Courts E-Filing Authority.

The authority board, which oversees the court system’s statewide e-filing portal, at its December 9 meeting also received a “clean” annual audit, approved its annual report which showed robust operations, and heard that its new eCommerce program, which handles payments from lawyers and others who file through the statewide e-filing portal, was implemented without serious problems.

Carolyn Weber, portal program manager, told the authority board that on November 30, the portal received 100,070 submissions, breaking the previous daily record of 96,003 from June 20.