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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.
Currently I am testing to convert O'reilly books to audio. scripts in example directory successfully converted some O'reilly books. I guess formats of the animal books of O'reilly are generally same so it generally works for the other books as well.
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.
clone pdf2speech.
git clone git@github.com:TanUkkii007/pdf2speech.git
- install dependencies
npm install
- 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
- I think pdf2speech cannot be a general CLI tool. There are tons of different formats of PDFs so programming is needed. Instead of providing general CLI, examples for specific books can be helpful.
- publish pdf-to-audio conversion process streams as library
- API refinement
- CMAP support