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Victor Miti

an engineer and avid pythonista who is passionate about technology and automation

Dec 19, 2022

Using CLI tools to manage audio, video, images and PDF files

I'm going to cut straight to the chase here, as the main reason for this post isn't to compare and contrast available tools and so on, but rather to highlight a few useful commands that often come in handy for various situations. This is more like a ...

blog.victor.co.zm12 min read

#cli #terminal #productivity #multimedia #opensource

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kimtai ferragamo

just learning how to do things better

Sep 7, 2023

Hi, do you have a script to convert a pdf or long news article to audio?

Hi kimtai ferragamo, you could use pdftotext to get text from a pdf, then use a text-to-speech tool such as e-speak (though the results from e-speak aren't very good. I'd recommend using professional tools such as AWS Polly, which is scriptable. I used it in this project, which I wrote about here).

Victor Miti

an engineer and avid pythonista who is passionate about technology and automation

Oct 9, 2023