Tamil_digibooks project is used to convert the images of a tamil book into a text file and/or searchable pdf using tessaract.

#Setup

Docker

Install docker in Windows/Linux.

After installation of Docker, pull the tamil_img2pdf docker from docker hub by executing the following command in terminal (Linux) or Command Prompt (Window)

docker pull docker.io/sksenthil1/tamil_img2pdf:latest

Input

Input folder should have the jpeg image of the tamil book pages.

Input_folder
    |
    | -- Tamilbook_1
            |--page_1.jpg
            |--page_2.jpg
            | .
            | .
            |--page_n.jpg
    | -- Tamilbook_2
    | .
    | . 
    | -- Tamilbook_n

NOTE

• The input folder should have at least one book folder

• The name of the book and pages should be written in english

• The books can also be in the format of zipped folders

  Input_folder
      |
      | -- Tamilbook_1.zip
      | -- Tamilbook_2.zip
      | .
      | . 
      | -- Tamilbook_n.zip
  

#Running the script If the input file have multiple tamil_book folders

docker run -it --rm -v <path/to/input/image/folder>:/input_folder -v <path/to/output/empty/folder>:/output_folder --entrypoint "python" docker.io/sksenthil1/tamil_img2pdf:latest create_pdf_from_multiple_folders.py

If the input file have multiple zipped tamil_book folders, add --zipped to the above command at the end

docker run -it --rm -v <path/to/input/image/folder>:/input_folder -v <path/to/output/empty/folder>:/output_folder --entrypoint "python" docker.io/sksenthil1/tamil_img2pdf:latest create_pdf_from_multiple_folders.py --zipped

Running the above two commands will generate output folder of structure

Output_folder
    |
    | -- Tamilbook_1
    |       |- pdfs
    |       |   |--page_1.pdf
    |       |   |--page_2.pdf
    |       |   | .
    |       |   | .
    |       |   |--page_n.pdf
    |       |- txts
    |       |   |--page_1.txt
    |       |   |--page_2.txt
    |       |   | .
    |       |   | .
    |       |   |--page_n.txt
    |       |-Tamilbook.pdf
    | -- Tamilbook_2
    | .
    | . 
    | -- Tamilbook_n

If only one book needs to be converted then,

docker run -it --rm -v <path/to/input/image/folder>:/input_folder -v <path/to/output/empty/folder>:/output_folder --entrypoint "python" docker.io/sksenthil1/tamil_img2pdf:latest create_pdf_from_folder.py

Running the above command will generate

Output_folder
    |- pdfs
    |   |--page_1.pdf
    |   |--page_2.pdf
    |   | .
    |   | .
    |   |--page_n.pdf
    |- txts
    |   |--page_1.txt
    |   |--page_2.txt
    |   | .
    |   | .
    |   |--page_n.txt
    |-Output_folder.pdf