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RusticReader
A minimalistic ebook reader
Overview
The goal of this project is to build an ebook reader that has a minimal set of features, that make ebook reading enjoyable on a desktop computer. Furthermore we are building a seamless experience for reading ebooks, both on a desktop computer and a tablet or ereader with a browser.
Features
- CLI client
- Converts regular or scanned PDF or EPUB to plain text
- Justifies the plain text to specified column width
- Horizontally centers the text
- Minimalistic less like interactive reader with vim like bindings
- Saves progress
- Written in pure Rust
- Cross platform
- Each component in the CLI client is exposed as a UNIX style utility
Quick start guide
Install the CLI client
cargo install --locked rustic-reader
rustic-reader document.pdf
for scanned document support
sudo apt install ocrmypdf tesseract-ocr-eng
then use the --ocr=true
flag
rustic-reader --ocr=true document.pdf
For further install instructions read the Getting started page
Documentation
Visit the Documentation
Roadmap
- Plain text format support
- PDF format support
- EPUB format support
- Convert scanned documents and images to plain text with ocrmypdf
- Auto saving progress
- Offline PWA web client
- Server to sync progress
- Integrated command line
- Text highlighting
- Extend server to sync books and highlights
- Support more ebook and document formats
- CLI client image to ascii art converter
- Natural sounding ai voice model for text to speech narration
Dependencies
~27–40MB
~604K SLoC