Programatically Access The Ncbi Images Database

Question

[Dave Bridges]

Is it possible to download and extract images and metadata from the NCBI images database? This was formerly at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/images but is currently redirecting to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/. I would like to, for a given PubMed ID, be able to download the attached figures and legends, and hopefully have some kind of persistent identifier for each image.

Answer 1

[Rm]

Source: www.openbiomed.info

Editor’s Note added July 20, 2011: The Images database no longer exists as a separate database. Images in PubMed Central® articles may now be searched via PubMed Central. For more details,please see "A Brand New Look for PubMed Central"

Manually You can now find images in PMC articles through a simple PMC search. Here is NCBI’s example: