Shredder System with Pre-Shred Scanning for Document Recovery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional shredder technologies are inadequate for recovering information fixed on a medium after it has been shredded, leading to difficulties in retrieving important documents and potential information loss due to accidental or intentional destruction.
Innovation Solution
A shredder system comprising an information processing device, a shredder, and a scanner device that reads information from the medium before shredding, allowing for the acquisition and management of this information in a recoverable manner, enabling its retrieval even after shredding.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a medium is shredded by a conventional shredder, then the medium is destroyed and cannot be recovered, but this leads to permanent loss of information fixed on the medium
Solution Approach 1:
The scanner device performs preliminary scanning of the medium before it enters the shredder to capture images of the information. This preliminary action ensures that even if the medium is shredded, the information can be recovered from the previously captured images, thus resolving the contradiction between secure destruction and information preservation
2Object-affected harmful factors
If a shredder destroys a medium completely, then information security is enhanced, but the ability to recover important information is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The scanner device creates a copy of the information fixed on the medium in the form of digital images before shredding. This copying allows the original medium to be destroyed for security purposes while the copied information remains preserved and recoverable, thus resolving the contradiction between complete destruction and information recovery
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables the recovery of information fixed on a medium that has been shredded, preventing information loss and allowing for the retrieval of important documents, thus addressing the limitations of conventional shredder technologies.
Implementation Method 1
a scanner device configured to read the information fixed on the medium
Data Source
AI summary
A read unit of a scanner device reads the information fixed to a medium by printing. A transmission control unit executes the control of transmitting, to a server, the information of the medium acquired in the form of digital image data. An information acquisition unit acquires the information transmitted from a shredder. An information management unit stores the information acquired by the information acquisition unit in an acquired information database in such a way as to be identified as the information of the medium so as to be managed to be capable of being read out as the information of the medium. An information readout unit acquires a readout indication transmitted from an observer terminal. Then, the information readout unit reads the information of the medium out of the acquired information database via the information management unit.