Let’s build a PDF to Audio App With Python

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1. Set Up Your Development Environment

Ensure you have Python installed on your system. You can download it from the official website.

Open your command prompt or terminal and install the necessary libraries by running the following command:

pip install PyPDF2 gTTS pydub

These libraries serve the following purposes:
- PyPDF2: Reads text from PDF files.
- gTTS: Converts text to speech (MP3 format).
- pydub: Manages audio files (optional, for any audio processing).

2. Let’s Write the Python Script

Importing Necessary

from PyPDF2 import PdfReader
from gtts import gTTS
import os
from pydub import AudioSegment
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import filedialog, messagebox

• PdfReader will read the PDF file.
• gTTS will convert the text to an audio file.
• tkinter will create a simple graphical user interface (GUI).

Extract Text from PDF

def pdf_to_text(pdf_path):
    pdf_reader = PdfReader(pdf_path)
    text = ""
    for page in pdf_reader.pages…