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Turn online ebooks into PDFs (via Ebook Central Proquest + JSTOR)

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# eBook Scraper

A modern browser extension to help you create PDFs from ebooks hosted on supported academic platforms.

### Supported Platforms
- JStor
- Ebook Central by ProQuest

### Supported Browsers
- Chrome
- Firefox

*This extension likely works on most Chromium and Firefox based browsers, though it's only been tested on those above*

![Screenshot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/janbaykara/ebook-scraper/master/screenshot.png)

## Usage

1. Navigate to a supported ebook platform (ProQuest, JStor).
2. Open an ebook you want to scrape.
3. Click through each page as they load to capture images.
4. Click the **eBook Scraper** extension icon in your toolbar.
5. Use the popup interface to save pages and compile your PDF. Enabling **OCR** will make the text in the PDF selectable, allowing you to copy and highlight it, though it may increase processing time.

![Screenshot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/janbaykara/ebook-scraper/master/screenshot2.png)

Note: Attempting to save very large ebooks may max out your computer's RAM and cause the browser to crash. Consider saving large ebooks in seperate blocks and collate later.

## Developer Instructions

### Prerequisites
- **Node.js** (v18.0 or higher).

### Prepare the Local Environment

1. **Clone the repository and install dependencies**
   ```bash
   git clone https://github.com/janbaykara/ebook-scraper.git
   cd ebook-scraper
   npm install
   npx wxt-prepare
2. **Launch the extension automatically with hot-reloading**
   ```bash
   npx wxt                    #Chrome
   npx wxt -b firefox         #Firefox
3. **Build files for production**
   ```bash
   npx wxt build              #Chrome
   npx wxt build -b firefox   #Firefox

## Acknowledgements
This project is built using the following open-source libraries:
- [WXT](https://github.com/wxt-dev/wxt)
- [jsPDF](https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF)
- [Tesseract.js](https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js)

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