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Two thoughts. First, there is a way to high chance that some people are basically doing this already or are taking inspiration from this. Second, the tell that it’s a joke article is that they bothered to destroy the prints, which implies that they bothered to scan them as well.
It seems to mean the prints of digital photos they were compressing, as it wouldn't involve scanning