[Web4lib] Download text from Google books

[Kevil, L H.]

Thanks for the suggestion, Lisa. Screen shots will work for normal
purposes. I've done that and then run the printout through OCR. This
takes more time than simply typing the text out.

But consider the case of a student needing to quote a paragraph or so,
perhaps across two or more pages, working around a photo or graph. The
paper is for a fussy professor who insists on his page margins, a
specified type face and point size, and MLA style, particularly for
footnotes, etc. Here the time-pressed student could use a quick -
perhaps QAD - way to download the text and import it into a Microsoft
Word document. It's an interesting problem.

Hunter

-----Original Message-----
From: L Cohn [mailto:lcohn at bplnj.org] 
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 8:51 AM
To: Kevil, L H.
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Download text from Google books


Get whatever you like centered on your screen and take a screen shot
(Print Screen Button).
Lisa

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Lisa Cohn, ILL, WebMaster,  Reference
Bloomfield Public Library,  bplnj.org
90 Broad Street, Bloomfield, NJ 07003
  973-566-6200x217, lcohn at bplnj.org
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---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Kevil, L H." <KevilL at missouri.edu>
Date:  Fri, 29 May 2009 08:12:42 -0500

>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. 
>
> 
>
>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.
>
> 
>
>Any suggestions would be most welcome. TIA,
>
> 
>
>Hunter
>
> 
>
>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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