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Seems like a travel scanner or something attached to the top of a shredder (differing speeds notwithstanding) to image the paper before it got turned into itty bitty pieces would be a little easier.

Really, given how cheap and easy it is to store large amounts of information digitally I'm surprised that something like this isn't common for a lot of cases to reduce storage costs.

How many businesses have rooms full of accounting records and receipts going back decades that could instead be taking up a bit of space in a rack? Toss a copy in Amazon Glacier for a penny a gigabyte so you have something off-site and call it a day.



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