Download books from Google Books as PNG images. It can be run either from the command-line or using a simple GUI (graphical interface). It should work out-of-the box for Unix systems (GNU/Linux, BSD) and (hopefully) for Windows.
For UNIX systems:
$ wget https://pysheng.googlecode.com/files/pysheng-VERSION.tgz
$ tar xvzf pysheng-VERSION.tgz
$ cd pysheng-VERSION
$ sudo python setup.py install
Note that in order to save a PDF you need ReportLab installed.
$ pysheng-gui
https://pysheng.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/screenshot1.png
- Download a whole book:
$ pysheng "https://books.google.com/books?id=m5w5PRj5Nj4C"
- Download a whole book using the command-line and convert the images into a single PDF (requires Imagemagick). Notice that you can use the Book ID only.
$ convert $(pysheng "m5w5PRj5Nj4C") book.pdf