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!
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
Now we need to make an engine that generates Where’s Waldo scenes, and have the robot working off a flat screen and let it run forever. If we don’t give these robots ditch digging jobs they’ll take ours. ;)
The Hider was pleased, insofar as it could be said to have emotions. Any moment now, it would decisively ensure Waldo was hidden, safe beyond reach and detection. Its nanobots had finished binding the last delicate molecules of cellulose and ink, structured according to ancient tradition. Now the field-generators spun up for the final publishing: The Finder would not succeed.
The scientists screamed and pounded against the glass, as the Hider carefully fed the newborn singularity its first atom.
it was fun to watch, but it would make a better demo if it was more of a Wherefore Are Thou Waldo that can talk about its process as it solves the problem
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_manipulator