Turning a page in a book with a robot is really hard ... The build used a vacuum-powered suction cup to lift pages onto a flatbed scanner. It’s a lot slower than some of the other builds ...

book or other object for scanning. The scan head is moved under the glass. Flatbed scanners often come with sheet feeders for scanning multiple sheets of paper rather than one at a time.

Flatbed scanners offer impressive versatility by scanning important documents, printed photos, and pages in books. Sheet-fed scanners maximize efficiency by supporting automatic document feeders ...

I fondly remember my first scanner, one I purchased about 30 years ago*; it was big, it was a flatbed (as opposed to a handheld one), it was slow but it did something magical. Capture documents and ...