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Reminds me of "Rainbow's End" by Vinge. There's a machine that's like a giant worm, which slithers down the stacks in a library, vacuuming up all the books. They pass through shredders, and then the shredded remains fly down the body of the worm, which is studded with cameras. The cameras photograph the pieces and then software reconstructs the content of the books based on unique shapes of the shreds, like solving a million simultaneous jigsaw puzzles. The paper is excreted and recycled or burned.

>>igor47+(OP)
Interestingly there was a real attempt to build an E-Puzzler for shredded documents, to reconstruct the torn Stasi files after the German reunification. But while the system worked for defined stuff, but failed for mass reconstruction of documents with different formats:

https://www.bundesarchiv.de/en/stasi-records-archive/the-rec...