Help:Internet Archive/Requested uploads

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Requested uploads

This is a help page for requesting upload of scans of public domain books to the Internet Archive. Wikisource:Sources contains links to other digital libraries from which scans can be added to IA. However PDF Scans derived from Google Books contains a warning which needs to be stripped off before adding the text to IA.

Requested uploads

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Google Books

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PDF Scans derived from Google Books contains a warning which needs to be stripped off before adding the text to IA for facilitating proofreading for Wikisource. These are normally done by the user/bot "tpb" (not affiliated to Internet Archive): we dream of a way to suggest tpb books we're interested in; we can start accumulating Google Books URLs here and then maybe tpb at some point will fetch them.

Also see this Scriptorium thread opened by Yann. Solomon7968 (talk) 10:37, 4 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

  • The work tpb has started seems to be ended years ago, but I'm not sure. In the meantime the GBS original collection grown considerably. Maybe we are in need of a tool to do direct research on GBS + warning page removal + IA upload instead? Lugusto 19:03, 7 February 2014 (UTC)Reply
    • Many editors here equipped with the software to remove the warnings and watermarks replace the existing IA derived file on Commons with the clean one without warnings and watermarks. It is especially trouble-some for large files. An automated system for uploading to IA will help for sure. Solomon7968 (talk) 03:31, 8 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

The easiest way to remove the warning page is with DjView, see Help:DjVu files#Removing a copyright page. The best place to ask for someone to do it for you is probably the Repairs (and moves) section of the Scriptorium. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 03:13, 10 January 2017 (UTC)Reply


please strip off google boilerplate and upload to IA

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I would like to add the original 1847 edition of "History of the press of western new york" by Frederick Follett to en.wikisource.org. IA has the 1920 and 1973 reprints but not the original 1847 edition - books.google.com has the 1847 edition about 80 pages. I would appreciate help from someone who can remove the google boilerplate and upload to IA to create the djvu file. Robin2014 (talk) 19:35, 23 February 2015 (UTC)Reply