check it out...

>   http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/book-flipping-scanning

>   The system, developed by lab members Takashi Nakashima
>   and Yoshihiro Watanabe, lets you scan a book by
>   rapidly flipping its pages in front of a high-speed camera.
>   They call this method book flipping scanning.
>   They told me they can digitize a 200-page book in one minute,
>   and hope to make that even faster.

no, it's not actually here yet, but this isn't just a pile of
david rothman bullshit hype, this has some reality to it.

-bowerbird