| 摘要 |
<p>A device for disposing paper and other information carrying media (5) which reads information printed on each sheet of paper, and stores (9) the read information, shreds (7) the paper sheet from which the information has been read. Thus, the paper may be shredded (7) or otherwise destroyed, but the information carried thereby may be retained in an electronic storage device (9), and reproduced if desired. Since each sheet of paper may carry information not only on one side thereof but may carry on two sides thereof, it is preferred that the device comprises two reading units (19,21) so that one of them (19) may read information from one side of the paper while the other reading unit (21) reads information from the other side of the paper. <IMAGE></p> |
