Help downloading a book in PDF from archive.org

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mitmproxy

If you can't find a 14-day version of the book, your best bet is to find a way to capture the pages as you flip through the book. It's a pain to do, but I've done it for a few books using mitmproxy. It's not for the faint of heart and I'm not doing a tutorial, but if you configure mitmproxy as an HTTPS man in the middle, then you can create a Python script that matches the URL pattern for page images and saves them somewhere. I wrote a script to do that. I'm using Linux.

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Tesseract

I use Tesseract OCR software to generate individual PDF pages with embedded text, then put them together into a book with PDFtk.

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Archive.org

That worked for a little while after archive.org started their "1 hour" loans, but it hasn't for some time.

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