Convert any PDF to an audiobook using Python and a little help from ChatGPT
The code below will convert a PDF to a mp3 with spoken text. Keep in mind the resulting mp3 will be very large if the PDF is lengthy. Verified working on a Windows machine with Python 3.9.2. import pyttsx3 import PyPDF2 # Open the PDF file in read-binary mode pdf_file = open('yourPDF.pdf', 'rb') # Read the PDF file using PyPDF2 pdf_reader = PyPDF2.PdfReader(pdf_file) # Store the amount of pages totalpages = len(pdf_reader.pages) # Initialize the TTS engine engine = pyttsx3.init() # Loop through each page in the PDF and extract the text text = "" for page_num in range(totalpages): page = pdf_reader.pages[page_num] text += page.extract_text() # Use the TTS engine to speak the text engine.say(text) # Save the audio to an MP3 file engine.save_to_file(text, 'yourAudiobook.mp3') # Run the TTS engine engine.runAndWait() # Close the PDF file...