That reminds me of the machine used to reconstruct the files shredded by the former East German Stasi as the Berlin Wall fell.
'E-Puzzler' ends painstaking manual restoration of torn secret police documents
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/may/10/germany.kateconnolly1
@EricLawton @jonty @szescstopni actually, according to the guardian, that e-puzzler machine had already in 2007 been put to use to reconstruct banknotes : "the machine was put to a wide range of uses - [...], and to piece together hundreds of thousands of bank notes shredded by a mother in an attempt to block her estranged daughter from her inheritance".