[Web4lib] Download text from Google books

[Bob Rasmussen]

It would appear, from a quick look over Google Books, that you must 
differentiate between "Limited preview" books and "full view" books.

For limited preview books, no text is presented, only page images. In 
fact, Google may not have OCRed the books yet, so they have no text to 
present. Your only option is to OCR the image (or retype it).

For full view books, you can view in text mode, then select all, then 
copy, then paste into Notepad (for instance), then find the part you want. 
Still not easy.

On Fri, 29 May 2009, Kevil, L H. wrote:

> We've got a new problem: how to download text from Google books. We're
> talking about small amounts of text, which would be  covered by academic
> fair use. 
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> 
> All the suggestions we have retrieved  - by googling, of course - have
> not panned out, including Google book downloader. Saving pages as
> graphics and then OCRing them hasn't worked either. Our OCR software is
> not very functional.
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> 
> Any suggestions would be most welcome. TIA,
> 
>  
> 
> Hunter
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> L. Hunter Kevil, Ph.D.
> Collection Development Librarian
> University of Missouri
> Columbia, MO 65201
> 573-884-8760
> kevill at missouri.edu 
> 
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