Build your own Audio book from any PDF with use of Python..🐍

Hello People,

In this Blog article, we will learn how convert any PDF to an Audio book with just few lines of Python code. It is a fun project to try. it is easy to understand.

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Video Tutorial:

You can watch my YouTube video Tutorial to see a working tutorial for better understanding and a step by step Guide to write a code.

Module Used in Code:

All you need is two python libraries:

◘ pyttsx3

◘ PyPDF2

That's all you are ready to make this cool program.

If you wish to know more about it, you can refer to pyttsx3 and PyPDF2 Documentation.

Code time:

# import PyPDF2 and pyttsx3 library
import PyPDF2
import pyttsx3

# Open PDF
# where mode='rb' is used for open the file in binary format for reading.
pdf_file = open('demo.pdf', 'rb')

# PDF file reader
pdf_read = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdf_file)

# gives number of Pages in PDF file
num_pages = pdf_read.numPages

engine = pyttsx3.init()
print('Read PDF')

# loop for read out all pages one by one
for n in range(0, num_pages):
    # Retrieves a page by number from this PDF file.
    page = pdf_read.getPage(n)

    # Extract text from page.
    text = page.extractText()

    x = n + 1
    print(f"Reading page {x}/{num_pages}.")

    # read text from page.
    engine.say(text)
    engine.runAndWait()

Thank you.

See you in my next Blog article, Take care!!

Dhruvin Gajjar.

TheCreators

Resources:

• pypi.org/project/pyttsx3

• pythonhosted.org/PyPDF2