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2025-05-08
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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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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.
