[okfn-labs] How to harvest scans from BL?

Fri Dec 20 20:34:05 UTC 2013

The British Library has scanned some books that they
let you download as PDFs. However, the PDFs are in
lower resolution that the scans that are displayed
in their online 'item viewer'.

Has anyone been able to harvest or scrape the full
resolution images from the item viewer?

Here is one such book,
http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vl%28freeText0%29=000507311&fn=search

Under "2 related resources" (red link at the right),
you will find two items where "I want this" for the
second one gives you a PDF or an 'item viewer'.
(Tell me if there is a short URL for this.)

Here's a sample from the PDF,
http://runeberg.org/elfsyssel/cow-pdf.png

The same sample from the item viewer,
http://runeberg.org/elfsyssel/cow-viewer.png

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   Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
   Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/