When visiting the museum of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, electrical engineer Chung To Kong came across a souvenir paperweight that was filled with shredded banknotes.
16,000 bags full of shredded Stasi documents are slowly being addressed in a similar fashion https://hackaday.com/2023/06/12/spy-tech-unshredding-documents/ , but it's been slow going: "To help, the German government turned to computers and the Fraunhofer Institute. Scientists there demonstrated software known as e-Puzzler that would revolutionize the document reconstruction process. However, that turned out not to be the case. While it does work, the process is painfully slow. ... The Fraunhofer system did help Bundesbank match up damaged banknotes. However, banknotes are more uniform and have known features that the Stasi documents lack. And, as you can see in the video below, it still looks like there is some manual work required. Despite putting in about 6.5 million euros, the official word is the process didn’t scale well for this many documents."
16,000 bags full of shredded Stasi documents are slowly being addressed in a similar fashion https://hackaday.com/2023/06/12/spy-tech-unshredding-documents/ , but it's been slow going: "To help, the German government turned to computers and the Fraunhofer Institute. Scientists there demonstrated software known as e-Puzzler that would revolutionize the document reconstruction process. However, that turned out not to be the case. While it does work, the process is painfully slow. ... The Fraunhofer system did help Bundesbank match up damaged banknotes. However, banknotes are more uniform and have known features that the Stasi documents lack. And, as you can see in the video below, it still looks like there is some manual work required. Despite putting in about 6.5 million euros, the official word is the process didn’t scale well for this many documents."
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Wow, that is cool.
I'm wishing them a speedy solution to this puzzle so that the perpetrators can be punished in this life before being punished in the next.