Video2Book

This is a simple tool to convert a video to a book. It uses the opencv library to extract frames from the video and the pytesseract library to extract text from the frames. The extracted images are then combined into a pdf file. The extracted text is then saved to a html file.

Installation

1. Ensure you have Python 3.10+ installed.

2. Activate the virtual environment:

source ~/code/.venv/bin/activate

3. Install Python dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Install Tesseract OCR (required for text extraction):

sudo apt update
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng

5. (Optional) If using conda instead of venv, you can create the environment with:

conda env create -f env.yml
conda activate video2book

Usage

python -m bookutils.py --file <video_file> [--crop-x crop_x1 crop_x2] [--crop-y crop_y1 crop_y2] [--lang <language>]

TODO

• Add support for multi threading on the text extraction
• Add progress bar for the processing steps (image extraction, image cropping, pdf creation, text extraction)
• Improve the html reader to better align the text on the image
• Extract diagams from the images
• Skip diagrams when extracting text
• Create html with formated text and diagrams instead of just images with aligned texts
• Fix crop auto detection

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.