I have an online textbook within a flash player wrapper, which I want to extract into pdf or word doc. The search functionality is shit. I've already paid £450 for the physical version, so I'm not willing to pay again for something I own already just so I can ctrl+f. Any idea how I can proceed lads?
Super interested in this too.
>>53625719
>I've already paid £450 for the physical version
It better be fucking gold plated
Sorry OP, can't help. I am also interested though.
Just screenshot each page.
>>53625873
Three hundred and fifty pages. I'm sure there's a better solution.
Get the browser inspector, refresh the page, see the downloaded stuff.
Werks every time on my university virtual library
>>53625883
Script it and run it through OCR?
IF its web based, use selenium to time clicks.
>>53625889
I can from the source that each page is stored as a jpeg at a publicly available URL, but that's not the source as its saved as text within the flash player.
>>53625928
Just use that, or find the text source (I'm guessing an xml file with the same name)
Any more assistance will require for you to post a sharpie in the pooper with a timestamp.
Cheers
You need to write a scraper using whatever language you're most comfortable with. This scraper needs to be able to drive selenium in order to support flash under a headless browser.
Python works pretty well with this type of project.
Give us the URL or tell us the book title faggot.
>>53627017
Do this already.
