pdf2speech v0.0.0

pdf2speech

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pdf2speech converts PDF to mp3 audio with text-to-speech engine. It allows you to read PDF books while you are walking.

Status

Currently I am testing to convert O'reilly books to audio. example.js successfully converted "Database Reliability Engineering" book. I guess formats of the animal books of O'reilly are generally same so it works for the other books as well.

Requirements

pdf2speech currently supports AWS Polly only as text-to-speech engine. Be sure to set up AWS credentials correctly.

pdf2speech uses Node.js and ES2016 syntax. Install Node.js with proper version.

How to run examples

clone pdf2speech.

git clone git@github.com:TanUkkii007/pdf2speech.git

1. install dependencies

npm install

1. Run example with a PDF file path argument.

node example.js path/to/pdf

This command generates several mp3 files. To concatenate these files, run cat command.

cat out-*.mp3 > combined.mp3

ToDo

• I think pdf2speech cannot be a general CLI tool. There are tons of different format of PDFs so programming is needed. Instead of provide general CLI, examples for specific books can be helpful.
• publish pdf-to-audio conversion process streams as library
• API refinement
• CMAP support