Unfortunately, the Pontiac Daily Leader has not yet been fully digitized. The website GenealogyBank.com requires an annual subscription fee to access the archived articles. This website has archived copies of the Daily Leader from 1958 to 1970.

The website Ancestry.com requires an annual subscription fee to access the archived newspaper articles. This website has archived copies of the Daily Leader from 1971 to 1977.

As of January 2024, the Pontiac Public Library is undertaking a project to digitize both the Pontiac Sentinel and Pontiac Daily Leader. Once this project is completed, people with a Pontiac library card can search these two old newspapers remotely using a desktop or cell phone. The library does not sell annual library cards to non-residents. A computer is supposed to be set up for public use in the library for non-residents to search the two newspapers for free.

It is not known if the microfilm system will remain in service or not after the digitization process is completed.

The Pontiac Sentinel was published from 1857 until about 1900. The Pontiac Library microfilm only goes back to 1871. The Sentinel is not yet digitized as noted above.