Download
2025-05-08
====================== PLEASE NOTE =======================
Due to changes to the API of the hathirtust homepage, the HDH is currently no longer functional!!
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2023-08-15: Hathi Download Helper 1.2.3 released
Hathi Download Helper is a tool for downloading public domain books from hathitrust.org.
Dependencies:
- for merging of pdf files the freeware "pdftk" (http://www.pdflabs.com/) is used.
Miscellaneous:
- Developed under Qt 5.14.2 (mingw) Win 10 Pro
- Compatible to Qt5 with Webkit
- tested with Win 10 Pro, Mac OS 10.15 Catalina, Ubuntu 16.04-18.04
- binary installer for windows: HDH_vX.Y.Z_setup.exe
- installer for Mac OS X: HDH_vX.Y.Z_setup_MacOsX
- AppImage for Linux-Ubuntu x64 LTS versions
An alternative download method using Firefox is described under the following link:
https://sourceforge.net/p/hathidownloadhelper/alternative/
E-Mail contact: hathidownloadhelper@hotmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hathidownloadhelperTool
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)
Project Samples
Categories
OCRLicense
GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)User Reviews
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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!
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Indispensable tool for handling Hathi Trust files. Greatly appreciated.
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HDH is wonderful - thank you so much for crafting and sharing it!
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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!
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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.