Downloading book preview

[Truman]

The script should open a preview of amazon book, list all given pages ( images ), download it's content and print it.

import time 
import subprocess 
from selenium import webdriver 
from urllib.request import urlretrieve

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Leo-Nikolayevich-Tolstoy/dp/1427030200")
time.sleep(2)

driver.find_element_by_id("imgBlkFront").click()
imageList = set()

time.sleep(5)

while "pointer" in driver.find_element_by_id("sitbReaderRightPageTurner").get_attribute("style"):
	driver.find_element_by_id("sitbReaderRightPageTurner").click()
	time.sleep(2)
	pages = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@class='pageImage']/div/img")
	for page in pages:
		image = page.get_attribute("src")
		imageList.add(image)
driver.quit()

for image in sorted(imageList):
	urlretrieve(image, "page.jpg")
	p = subprocess.Popen(["tesseract", "page.jpg", "page"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
	p.wait()
	f = open("page.txt", "r")
	print(f.read())

but this is what I get

Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python36\kodovi\bookpreview.py", line 26, in <module>
    p = subprocess.Popen(["tesseract", "page.jpg", "page"], stdout=subprocess.PI
PE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
  File "C:\Python36\lib\subprocess.py", line 709, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "C:\Python36\lib\subprocess.py", line 997, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

[snippsat]

It try to call Tesseract OCR Windows install.
So subprocess need to find tesseract.exe,test that it work.

Output:
C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR
λ tesseract
Usage:
  tesseract --help | --help-extra | --version
  tesseract --list-langs
  tesseract imagename outputbase [options...] [configfile...]

OCR options:
  -l LANG[+LANG]        Specify language(s) used for OCR.
NOTE: These options must occur before any configfile.

Single options:
  --help                Show this help message.
  --help-extra          Show extra help for advanced users.
  --version             Show version information.
  --list-langs          List available languages for tesseract engine.

Now i run in install folder,can also add to Windows Path(to make work anywhere cmd/cmder).

[Larz60+]

It's looking for page.jpg
If I run your code in debugger, here's the exception:

Output:
page.jpg: AttributeError("'FirefoxWebElement' object has no attribute 'jpg'")

Form line 26

[Truman]

Hm, I thought that it's going to open page.jpg file.
Any idea what is a better thing to do? I'm not so skilled with tesseract.

[Larz60+]

I'm not so skilled with tesseract.

Nor I, but I'll take a look at the docs

[Larz60+]

I couldn't find any limitations on image type, but all examples show .png.
you can try converting to png (gimp, or from pillow, open as jpg and save as png)

[Truman]

now checking my folder with .py files. What is interesting that yesterday when I tried this code for the first time page.jpg file was created but it had only the first preview page. Wondering why...