bookcli-webinar

Code from Anders webinar (26 Nov 2020). A quick tutorial to build a CLI application that read a pdf book out loud.

You can use this code as the MVP and consider building/adding feature to your application as suggested below

Installation:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Note: This project use pdftotext, please check pdftotext documentation for its OS specific dependencies

Usage:

Check --help for detail usage

python main.py --help

Reference

• Convert PDF to text: pdftotext
• Python toolkit for working with databases: SQLAlchemy
• Python CLI framework: Click
• Python Text-to-Speech library: Pyttsx3
• Python library for printing nice looking table to console: python-tabulate
• Database migration tool: alembic

Suggestion for improvement

• Functionality for storing the last read page
• Functionality to continue from the last read page
• Functionality to start reading from a specific page
• Functionality to change voices
• Functionality to automatically detect book's language and choose the suitable voices according to the detected language
• And more...