According to Nicholas Basbanes’ excellent book “On Paper” (p. 205) the shredded Stasi files that were stored in 16, 250 trash bags were supposed to have been reassembled, if I can use that word, by the pattern recognition machine ePuzzler by 2012. “It’s designers claimed the scanning device could compose digitized images of whole sheets of paper from fragments by analyzing texture, shape, thickness typeface, outline, and tear configuration”(p. 205)
Has that project been completed yet? I look forward to your feedback.
davidmich
1995 - manual reconstruction began
2007 - development of reconstruction software begun
2010 - parliament voted additional funds for software study
2013 - software functionality shown to work
since then - 24,000 usable pages recovered
2015 - parliament voted additional funds for speedier, partly automated scanning
Dunno, I hope so. But before the Wall came down great things were expected to be revealed by Trilisser’s Index, the Chekist Archive of all things KGB ( and possibly GRU ), maintained to the end of the Soviet Union after the unavoidable early death of Meier Abramovich Trilisser in 1940 who began it. Probably mostly card indexes, but extending to millions.
After it’s been mostly forgotten, along with most of soviet crimes.