New tool to download books from DLI

[shankara]

Pranams to all,

A new tool to download books from DLI is available at the following blog. It is relatively faster and can handle multiple downloads.

http://dli-downloader.blogspot.in/

 

regards
shankara

[shankara]

Oliver,

This tool was developed by Munish Chandel. I am sorry if there was a confusion. I just shared this new with you all.

 

regards
shankara

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From: Oliver Hellwig <oliver....@indsenz.com>
To: sams...@googlegroups.com
Cc: shankara <shanka...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, 20 May 2013 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: New tool to download books from DLI

Dear Shankara,

thanks a lot for creating this well designed tool, which really simplifies working with DLI.

Best, Oliver

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Dr. Oliver Hellwig
ind.senz - Digital technologies for Indian languages
http://www.indsenz.com

[Ram Khare]

Dear Shankara,

 

I was not able to use your download tools on Windows 7 Professional platform. It did not allow typing in the barcode area. Any suggestion or help?

 

Regards,

 

Ram Khare

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Arvind_Kolhatkar <kolhat...@gmail.com> wrote:

It certainly is good news.

The sad fact is that DLI is very poorly managed and is a big disappointment.  Quite often  It is down and not accessible.  (As I am writing, this it is down and not accessible.)  Even when it is up and you see a book in it that you want, it does not allow you to download it.  Instead, the site flashes a cryptic message that 'the book is not available' or words to that effect.  Even where a download starts, there is no guarantee that it will go to the end.  Very often it terminates somewhere on the way, leaving the user with .tiff images of downloaded pages, which are tedious to use.  The transcribing of titles and names into the Roman script is nightmarish and unscientific in the extreme, making a search of its index very difficult.  It does not provide a user-friendly facility of its own to enable the user to download digitized books, requiring efforts of third parties to develop software to fill this need.

With tens of thousands of book in Indian languages waiting to be digitized, the work of DLI seems to be almost at a standstill.  Last time I checked, the total number of Malayalam books did not exceed a few hundred.  There are a few thousand Marathi books but that number has unchanged over the last 4-5 years.  In other words, not a single Marathi book has been added in that period.

Prestigious names of IIT's and IUCA are associated with DLI.  Despite that, why is India's own digitization site so poorly run?  It is indeed a matter of shame!  Does it show that Indian academics do not care for preservation of old book?  And what are the Indian universities doing for their share?

India claims to be a software superpower.  Yet, non-Indian sites like archive.org, books.google.com, scribd.com do a far superior job of preserving India's treasure of old books.

Arvind Kolhatkar, Toronto, May 20, 2013.

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[shankara]

Khareji,

I do know about technical aspects of this tool. Please write to Munish Chandel who developed this tool. He is very much helpful. His email is cancer...@gmail.com

 

regards
shankara

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From: Ram Khare <ramk...@gmail.com>
To: sams...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, 24 May 2013 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Samskrita] Re: New tool to download books from DLI

[Chandrasekaran K]

Dear Arvindji

There is one possible way to reduce the difficulties in one area in downloading. 

When the downloader terminates half way it leaves a several TIFF images in the cache. Adobe Photoshop has a batch process to convert these TIFF images to pdf files. PDFill pdf tools (free download from http://www.pdfill.com/ ) can compile these pdf files into a single pdf file. 

A little bit cumbersome but, as I said, it reduces the difficulties in one area. 

Hope this helps. 

Chandrasekaran 

[dhaval patel]

you may try irfanview which has facility to compile tiff files into single pdf file.

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Arvind_Kolhatkar <kolhat...@gmail.com> wrote:

Chandarji,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I have another easy solution for the same problem that does not require any new software.

I open a new Word document and insert the .tiff images sequentially into it.  Afterwards I save the document as a .pdf file.  If the number of .tiff images is very large, I do this in batches and join all resultant .pdf files into one file.

Arvind Kolhatkar, Toronto, June 03, 2013.

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