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Dezoomify saves a full-resolution zoomable image as a single picture file you can keep. Museums, libraries, and archives often show their artworks in a viewer that only displays small pieces of the picture at a time. Dezoomify gathers all the pieces and assembles them back into the complete image.
Which app should I use?
Dezoomify comes in four apps. They all understand the same websites; they differ in what they can reach and how large an image they can save.
The website is the right choice for most images. Go to the Dezoomify website, paste the address of the page that shows your image, and press the Dezoomify button. Nothing to install.
Choose a different app when:
- The page asks you to sign in or subscribe. The website runs without
signing in anywhere, so it cannot see pages that are only visible to members. The browser extension works inside your own browser with your own session, so it can.
- The image is enormous (a gigapixel panorama, a whole digitized
manuscript). A browser tab can run out of room for very large pictures. The desktop app runs on your computer without those limits and can also save in more file formats.
- You want to save many images at once, or from scripts. The
command-line tool does that.
Not sure which one applies? Try the website first: it tells you clearly when it cannot finish a job, and suggests the app that can.
What Dezoomify is not
- Dezoomify never breaks passwords or paywalls. If you can see the image in
your browser after signing in, the extension or the desktop app can usually save it; if you cannot see it at all, neither can Dezoomify.
- Dezoomify works on the images it recognizes. If a site uses an unusual
viewer, see finding the image address for a way to help it, and troubleshooting when something fails.