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Scanner is placed a couple centimeters
above the shredding device. As the paper
is fed in, the scanner sees it first, scans
both sides and shreds in one smooth
action.
Sometimes you just want the information
and the paper is just a waste. Perhaps you
want the peace of mind that after
all is
done not all is lost in case you made some
gross error of judgement.
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awesome idea but would require a change in the law such that electronic data is acceptable. |
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At the very least it allows you to keep
figures, dates and receipt info. |
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i just hope OCR is good enough that you don't end up with a shredded receipt and confusion as to what that weird character was. |
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shred it first, then scan it before it drops into the bin for a slight encrypted look. |
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ideal for spies. like me. |
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//Someone invented software to piece paper strips back together so shredder makers responded by inventing the cross-cut type that cut it into confetti.// |
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Actually, clear adhestive tape works just fine for strip-cut shredders. Cross-cut shredders probably require software to decipher, though. |
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of course if you are Iranian and have the time and an empty US embassy then shredded data is recoverable and sell able. |
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I picture this as idea being useful for things like credit card bills that you may want to have a record of but not want to store the bills themselves. |
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There are many businesses which scan documents and shred the originals (and--before the age of scanners--whould photograph them and then shred them). Some financial institutions have been doing this with checks for years, for example. On the other hand, putting the shredder with the scanner could cause the document to be lost altogether if something went wrong in scanning it. |
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Scanned (electronicly duplicated) documents are legal in court and for the IRS. Many companys scan and shred all documents as supercat has stated.
OCR would not be needed since documents would be scanned as an image and indexed by shred time and date in a database. Items could lated be re-indexed with more information to be easly found at a later date.
OCR could be combined with imaging to automaticly index, but this would have it's problems since the ocr program would have to be "smart" enough to know which kind of document you were scanning and which part of it to use for indexing. I am for indexing by shred date/time and manualy entering the rest later.
I would use a four part process.
1. print referance points on the outer edges of the document.
2. scan document
3. verrify that printed referance points are in the correct location's on scanned document
4. shred the document |
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Steps 1 and 3 are added to automate a way of making sure that you got a good scan before shredding. |
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//Scanning it before defeats the fundamental purpose of shredding//
Which is why I'm voting for this. |
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Scann error -- Put in rejection bin instead of shredding. |
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Now you're talkin'. No wait--now I'm talkin'. |
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this is a great idea, even if I was just about to post it myself. |
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Does anybody have any links as to where one actually exists? I guess the fundamental problem is simply verifying the document has been properly scanned before shredding, but I'm sure that's easily remedied with today's technology. |
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Your attached PC (or inbuilt screen) should show the doc before you click "shred", just to make sure you don't shred it in the case of a bad scan. |
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Inbuilt screen--yes. A Touch screen to quickly index the file into folders, such as "School" "Action Item" or "Junkstuffs." Anything you don't feel like indexing can be stored for later review/dump. |
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A good accessory would be a wireless flatscreen to be mounted on a wall. Acting as an electronic pegboard, it can cycle through your action items (like event flyers, movie rental return dates, "Call Jeannie for tax evasion strategies.") at variable speed. There could be a simple click button on the frame's face to pause. I'm sure this digital memo display has already been invented, but if it's integrated with the scan/shred system, you have eliminated push pins, scraps of paper, and dry erase markers in return for the family-size PDA. |
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Another thing: the scanner/shredder should easily communicate with wireless printers as well as having the aforementioned USB port. |
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How does everyone feel about flatbed scanner vs document auto-feed style? |
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A more logical approach would be to
abstract the various functions into
modules that embody the principle of
'something flat passing through it and
having a process applied to it'. Then
make them cascadable or stackable. |
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Thus, we could have a scan module,
followed by a shred module (if that's the
sequence that works for you). Or, for
other usages, a toasting module, and a
marmalading module. To allow dynamic
flexibility, preset sequences need to be
able to activate the modules individually
per preset (like a 'chip select' signal on
an LSI integrated circuit). This then
allows the contents to pass through but
not to be acted upon, for inactive
modules. That way you can just cascade
them all together - in this example,
setting 'remember what I'm destroying'
would [1] scan; [0] fax to random
stranger; [0] toast; [0] margarine; [0]
steam iron;
[0] marmalade; [1] shred; [0] serve on
plate. As an example of a preset
sequence, that is. |
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