Personal application to read books in PDF format

Getting started

Install dependencies:

1. Festival TTS
2. Ollama + mistral model

Clone this repository.

$ git clone https://github.com/jaswdr/pdf_reader

Install dependencies with poetry.

$ poetry install

Extract pages.

$ poetry shell
$ python -m pdf_reader --pdf ./path/to/file.pdf

Start reading it from page 1.

$ poetry shell
$ python -m pdf_reader --pdf ./path/to/file.pdf --page 1

Commands

• <number>: Got to page
• <Enter>: Go to next page
• r: Read the page content using Festival TTS
• s: Summarize current page (requires Ollama installed with mistral model downloaded)
• rs: Read the summary.