Basically, what’s going to happen is they will scan the shreds and use various computer programs to reassemble them.
I recommend you start with your eDiscovery vendor (I assume you have an existing relationship with one).
If not, try Kroll Ontrack (http://www.krollontrack.com/data-recovery/), which offers forensic services (and I should judge any company offering such services would be worth looking at).
If you want to do the work in-house, check out the following sources:
· Stasi Records Agency, which preserves and protects the archives and investigates the past actions of the former Stasi, which served as the secret police and foreign intelligence organization of the communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Description of document reconstruction project (in German): http://www.bstu.bund.de/DE/Archive/RekonstruktionUnterlagen/_node.html;jsessionid=A511E3863D935A0A6AF143352B2A93C9.2_cid329
· References:
· Wikipedia article "Paper shredder" (see sections titled "Unshredding" and "Forensic identification", about halfway down the page): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_shredder#Unshredding
· Wikipedia article "Stasi", see section "Recovery of the Stasi files - Reassembling the destroyed files" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
· Wikipedia article "Stasi Records Agency" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi_Records_Agency
· Time Magazine "Piecing Together Germany's Shredded Stasi Files" (http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1983287,00.html);
· YouTube "People & Power - Germany's records of repression" (you have to skip the al-Jazeera ad): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy8J37X7umY (+21 minutes)
Of course, once the sanctions go away, you can always check out the Iranians …. ;-)
Best regards, and have a great weekend.
Fred
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Strip shredded documents we need put back together
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Hi Matthew,
What do you mean by “document reconstruction”?
Fred
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