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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.
US20090257101
http://www.google.c...tents/US20090257101
Mentioned in my anno. Shredder that scans after shredding [notexactly, Mar 30 2017]
[link]
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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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I was just thinking of such a device,
scanner/shedder combo, and I searched and found
your suggestion. I'd like to add couple comments:
the scanner could have a built-in encryption
program that would be decoded by an online app.
There could also be built-in flash storage, or a USB
slot for storage onto a flash key. I don't think that
the device needs to have OCR ability, just TIF
storage. The decoding, sorting, filing could be
done from the images on the computer. A lazy
person like myself might not ever bother with
filing all the images, but I would still have the
ability to find certain documents by searching
through the icon folder of the flash drive. |
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This could be a nondescript, discrete add-on for
spies to place under the shredder. |
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// shred it first, then scan it before it drops into the bin
for a slight encrypted look. // - [po], 2004 |
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See [link]—that's now patented! (It's patented for the
purpose of verifying successful shredding, though, so I
think it's a sufficiently original idea to patent.) |
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[-] sorry no. Death is needed, even a mistaken death. To
have a reality without, is not long term. |
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This shredder is going to deprive people of that earthly right
to feel the OMG emotion of realizing a terrible mistake. A
sad loss to humanity. |
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