Comment expensive OCR operation (Score 1) 209
Almost sounds like this would require a lot of venture capital to pull off and should warrant far more than a 50k prize.
For large jobs, I can using air blowing conveyor belts to align and feed the scraps into a series of modified industrial sheet fed image scanners and allow a computer to itemize each of the images and convert them to OCR formatted files. Once completed, write a puzzle algorithm to piece them together electronically.