by Shyamal Suhana Chandra, shyamalc@gmail.com
Purpose: This bash script for MacOS is used to convert the most latest created PDF in the same directory into a single text movie video with embedded speech synthesis.
Quick installation: brew install --build-from-source pdftotextmovie (Only one line!)
To run: pdftotextmovie in the directory of the latest pdf.
To run from source:
gh repo clone shyamalschandra/pdftotextmoviecd pdftotextmovie- Follow the prequisities below.
Preliminary Prerequisites:
- First, install homebrew and pip on MacOS device.
- Please do a
brew install pkg-config poppler. - Please do a
sudo pip install --user pdftotext. - Please do a
brew install ffmpeg. - Please do a
sudo pip install --user numpy. - Run the following commands in this comment.
- Please do a
brew install imagemagick. - Download the model for
Zoe (Premium)from the voices underAccessibility -> Spoken Content -> System Voice -> under English (US).
Also, do a chmod +x pdf2textmovie.sh when you get into the 'pdftotextmovie' folder before running.
Example argument list with the command inside the directory of the PDF that needs to be converted into a text movie with embedded speech synthesis:
./pdf2textmovie.sh