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Originally Posted by hdaackda
Issue is, I can only view 1 page at a time.
Is there any way I can save the entire book in PDF or ePub etc easily? (i tried the inspect/view source but can't find any pdf etc.. each page is shown individually after clicking next)
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If you wanted, you could even use something like AutoHotKey:
You'd be able to create a basic scraper which:
- Downloads the image.
- Saves + numbers the images sequentially.
- Clicks through next page.
(Of course, this would still require you to sit there and press a few buttons.)
If you wanted to go full automation, then team up with a Computer Science student/programmer, and you could come up with something much smarter:
- Detect page change
- Check a location to make sure image was fully loaded.
- Could be as simple as... 1/4th down + 1/4th middle of the screen:
- If background color = X, image not loaded yet.
- If color = white, image fully loaded.
- Zoom in + Scrape highest resolution image possible.
- Or pull/save image data right from the network.
- Automatically number/split pages.
- Automate the PDF bundling + OCR at the end.
- [...]
Each publisher's website is probably going to require a customized solution.... but if it shows up on your screen, you can capture it.
I used something similar many years ago to grab a few images off of HathiTrust's website, because they had old public domain scans that weren't available elsewhere, but they were hidden behind their annoying website.