PDF to Audio Converter and Translator
1.Background/ Problem Statement
Be it browsing through the seemingly endless pages of terms and conditions on an important official document or kicking back and flipping through an intriguing eBook- reading is quite an undeniable and inescapable part of our everyday lives.
However, reading anything demands our complete undivided attention making it nearly impossible for us to multitask. Moreover, staring at a screen for long periods also strains our eyes.
This PDF to Text Converter and Translator developed using Python can instantly and accurately convert any PDF text into audio.
Along with reading any PDF document out loud, this application can also translate and vocalize any text into up to five languages.
Moreover, this system can also benefit visually impaired individuals and people with learning disabilities such as dyslexia.
- Working of the Project
This project has a user page that first lets you sign up and thereafter one can log in and one has to send in a pdf file containing text.
The text is read by the function “PyPDF2.PdfFileReader” and it is converted to byte form.
The text is then extracted using the function “text.extractText()”.
The library googletrans is used to convert the text written in a particular language into the audio form of a particular language.
We have several options in languages, such as English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, etc.
Using the function “gTTS” we can hear the audio.
- Advantages
- Very efficient
- People from different regions can use this
- Saves time
- System Description
The system comprises of 1 major module with the following sub-modules:
User:
- New User/Register: New User can create their account by adding information such as name, gender, email id, address, etc.
- Login: User can login to their account using their credentials.
- Read PDF: User can upload PDF that they wish to be converted to audio.
- Choose Language: User can select the language in which they want their document to be translated.
- Listen PDF: User will be able to listen to the PDFs uploaded by them.
- Project Life Cycle
The waterfall model is a classical model used in system development life cycle to create a system with a linear and sequential approach. It is termed as waterfall because the model develops systematically from one phase to another in downward fashion. The waterfall approach does not define the process to go back to the previous phase to handle changes in requirement. The waterfall approach is the earliest approach that was used for software development
- System Requirement
- Hardware Requirement
- Laptop or PC
- I3 processor system or higher
- 4 GB RAM or higher
- 100 GB ROM or higher
- Software Requirement
- Laptop or PC
- Windows 7 or higher
- Vs code
- Python 3.7
- Django 3
- Limitation/Disadvantages
- Wrong inputs will affect the project outputs.
- Application –
- Can be used to vocalise any PDF file.
- Besides reading out text, this system instantly and efficiently translates it as well.
- Useful for visually impaired individuals and people with learning disabilities as well.
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