What about very old books, or handwritten books, or books with images in it? The only valid archival approach has to be taking a good photo / scan while the pa

What about very old books, or handwritten books, or books with images in it? The only valid archival approach has to be taking a good photo / scan while the page is as flat as possible. Every further processing can be done later based on that, as a separate step... as technology advances. Also carefully FLIPPING THE PAGES is literally the whole problem. Everything else can be solved by lowering a glass pane on the book and automatically taking a photo from above.