Backup/Download your bought Edubase books to PDFs, because nobody likes proprietary ebook readers.

git clone https://github.com/tobiaswuerth/edubase-downloader.git
py -m venv .venv
.\.venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Setup OCR (if necessary):

• download and setup https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki
• add installation directory to system environment variable PATH (to let it access tesseract.exe)
• open link https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/
  • download the languages you intend to use:
    • note: code is setup for Deutsch and English, if you need something else, adjust the default in ocr.py
    • note: English is available by default, needs no additional download
    • deu for Deutsch, download deu.traineddata
  • put the files into the installation sub-directory tessdata (e.g. \Tesseract-OCR\tessdata\deu.traineddata)
• download and setup https://ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html

1. Update the config.yaml file with your edubase login credentials
2. Run py .\main.py

This will:

1. opens new browser window
2. login using your credentials
3. find all books
4. lets you choose which book to download
5. download PDF to /downloads/ directory
6. OCR the PDF (if setup correctly)
7. ... choose to download another one or not, goto step 4. and repeat

This code does not "crack" any copy protection. It simply makes automated screenshots of every single site of a bought document/book. Since Edubase cannot guarantee the existence/support for their reader app if they go out of business, this repo was created to save, backup and preserve bought Edubase documents as the widely adapted and well documented PDF format.