Three Projects That Make LEGO Toys into High-Tech Tools
From: Popular Science - 09/2014

Book Digitizer

A year ago, chemical engineer John Cole co-developed a circuit board that
turns a Raspberry Pi minicomputer into a robot. Inspired by Google's goal to
scan all the books in the world, Cole paired his device with a LEGO
Mindstorms EV3 set and adapted it to quickly digitize printed text. Cole's
BrickPi Bookreader has a wheel and robotic arm to turn each page, and a
camera to snap pictures. Then character-recognition software converts the
photos into a digital copy of the book. [It can also read the page aloud.]

Read the entire article and view a video (2:09) at:
http://www.popsci.com/article/diy/three-projects-make-lego-toys-high-tech-tools

Links:
BrickPi Bookreader
http://www.dexterindustries.com/BrickPi/projects/brickpi-bookreader/

BrickPi Bookreader 2
http://www.dexterindustries.com/BrickPi/projects/brickpi-bookreader-2/