Hathi Download Helper

Obtaining eBooks from Internet database websites can be tricky, especially when requiring more than just individual downloads. Hathi Download Helper is an eBook downloading utility that will allow users to easily save their preferred books from the hathitrust website. It provides a good collection of features for downloading individual or multiple books, with tools for saving them as PDFs or images. It will include a very useful OCR module and PDF or image merging capabilities.

Hathi Download Helper comes packed with a clean interface where users will find all the necessary tools for downloading their eBooks from the hathitrust website. In order to facilitate the download and conversion process, the layout offers a three step sequence: input of book URL, selection of download format and finally, merge and conversion output options.

Users will be able to download their preferred books in no time and the application’s intuitive action will grab their book URLs right after copying them from the browser. One can select a page range for download, resolution and corresponding destination folder and the application will then begin the download process.

The application allows users to add multiple eBook links in the “Batch Job” module queue and download them simultaneously. It will save all the copied links in a special link collector view, where users will have easy access to them in case they require.

In terms of automation, the application features a dedicated text recognition module which will extract all the detected characters from the eBooks and it will export each individual page in plain HTML format. This is indeed useful, but it would have been nice for the application to save the text directly into TXT or DOC formats.

For those who require an efficient way of downloading individual or multiple books from the hathitrust website, this application might be a good choice. It will offer them a valuable package with useful tools for saving their preferred eBooks into PDF or image format, even providing the tools to merge the individual PDF or image pages. However, its OCR feature will convert the eBooks only into plain HTML format and demanding users might request additional formats such as TXT or DOC.