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I do enjoy the various methods of automatic page turning used by book scanning machines. None of them are simpler than a toy robot arm and a cheap USB webcam!

- Flipping - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ccxwNssmo

- Arm with suction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoICY1fHQsA

- Linear vacuum (google) - https://linearbookscanner.org/

- Vacuum prism scanner (40+ ppm!) - https://www.treventus.com/scanner/automatic-book-scanner

I mean, a toy robot arm and a cheap USB webcam sounds really hard to do with good accuracy.

Nice collection of machines :)

I did wonder if they had the machine check finger to waldo distance and then readjust accordingly.

Perhaps many of us humans can be retrained for page-turning and thus have purpose in the new era while filling a market need. <tongue-in-cheek>

speaking of hand turned pages, your comment gave me an idea for a masochistic Waldo book: many pages, many pictures, but only one Waldo in the whole book. Maybe with more learning about geography or something while you find where in the world is Waldo so it's not as frustrating

I know, it's actually funny how hard turning pages is for robots.

They need a Waldo to do that.