2025-05-08
====================== PLEASE NOTE =======================
Due to changes to the API of the hathirtust homepage, the HDH is no longer functional!!

Please check the project Wiki for alternative methods.
https://sourceforge.net/p/hathidownloadhelper/alternative/

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Hathi Download Helper was a tool for downloading public domain books from hathitrust.org.

E-Mail contact: hathidownloadhelper@hotmail.com

Features

  • download of pdf files
  • download of image files
  • download of ocr text files
  • export of page link lists
  • creation of batch jobs (download multiple books)
  • merges several pdfs to a single pdf book
  • converts image files to pdfs or a pdf book
  • creates searchable pdf files
  • proxy support (automatic or user defined)
  • page setup support due to underlying pdf printer (letter, A4, A3 etc.)
  • adjustable GUI style and font
  • (auto) update checker
  • hide/recover HT-watermarks in pdfs
  • upload of pdf files to internet archive (archive.org)

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Categories

OCR

License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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User Reviews

  • After installation I noticed that there's a 15 pages/5 minutes download limit and I uninstalled the program. Later I realized that seemingly this limitation comes from the server and the program has nothing to do with it. So accepting this I installed the program again. Works very well, it's easy to use. The program does everything quietly, completing the download is only a matter of time. Thank you for this program, very useful!
  • Indispensable tool for handling Hathi Trust files. Greatly appreciated.
  • HDH is wonderful - thank you so much for crafting and sharing it!
  • HDH 1.1.7 works pretty fine on Linux ;) Everything works well except for merging the images into a single pdf, but this can be done a posteriori on the command line: #!/bin/bash pdfunite * ../../YOUR_PDF.pdf # or pdfunite *{01..10}.pdf ../../YOUR_PDF.pdf Thank you for your software!
  • Very useful, thanks for your work! A new feature that would be nice would be a way to automatically resize all the downloaded images to the same size, since color images were scanned at different resolutions than b/w.
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Server Operating Systems, Windows

Languages

English

User Interface

Qt

Programming Language

C++

Related Categories

C++ OCR Software

Registered

2016-06-18