This will not help you any, but one of my favorite movies, Three Days of the Condor, had a scanner that would turn the pages. That was in 1975. It was in the first five minutes of the movie.
I have had a tiny pucker in my right eye for about 25 years. It makes the tops of telephone poles look like Ss, among other things. I had no idea that was an indicator of macular degeneration. I had mentioned it to my eye doctor in the past but he did not seem concerned. I have an appointment with him next week. I am going to bring it up again.
My vision was clear enough, but just felt “off” for a long time, maybe 10 years or more. I kept complaining to my ophthalmologist and he finally referred me to the retina specialist. He did a lot of retina scans that found the pucker and explained what was going on. I hadn’t noticed the distortion until that diagnosis a couple years ago.
The surgery is scary — drain the eyeball of the vitreous humor, make a small incision, scrape a micron layer off the retinal scarring, and let the body regenerate the vitreous humor. Yikes!
My right eye presents a distorted image of straight horizontal lines. There’s a small downward dip in the middle of the line. It appears as maybe an inch droop of the horizontal line at 20 ft.
Good luck with your visit with your eye doc.