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Bookify

Summarizing PDF documents into audio format in Indian languages.

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Bookify

Summarizing PDF documents into audio format in Indian languages.

The problem Bookify solves

You may have used Spotify to listen to songs. But, what about books or lengthy PDFs? Well, you might say that audiobooks serve that purpose. But, using this web application, users can upload PDF document and get the summary of that PDF file in the language of their choice as audio output (mp3). Hence, listening to the summaries of these PDF documents in your native languages (English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Marathi) can save your time and effort.

Challenges I ran into

  1. Extracting texts from PDFs was a major issue. After a lot of searching, I came across Pdfplumber library, which worked for me.
  2. Translating the summary of the text was another issue. Again, after reading some blogs and stack-overflow answers, I decided to use TextBlob library.

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