PDFs To Audiobooks

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My boyfriend was struggling to cram a lot of material for her exams, so I wrote a script to turn his PDFs into audiobooks. Over the previous weekend, I turned that script into an website called PDF.Audio!

https://pdf.audio/

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Hey everyone, I wanted to share more about my project, PDF.Audio, and how it came to be.

The idea came up when my girlfriend was cramming for her exams. She had a lot of material to go through and wished she could listen to her notes while doing other things. To help her, I wrote a script that converted her PDFs into audio files using AI. It worked really well for her, but at the time (this was happening in spring this year), I just moved on and forgot about it.

But this previous weekend, I remembered the script I wrote back in spring and decided to turn it into an app. The app lets users upload any PDF document and converts the text into an audiobook. It’s great for anyone who wants to listen to study materials, work documents, or even leisure reading on the go.

Right now, it’s a very simple MVP: you upload a PDF, get a quote on how much it would cost to process it into an audiobook, and then the app processes the text and turns it into audio. At the end, you receive the audiobook in an email.

I’m planning to add more features soon, like improved handling of complex PDFs, more voices, and a proper dashboard to see your previously uploaded PDFs & the audiobooks.

PDF.Audio is still in its early stages, so I’d love any feedback or suggestions from the community. Feel free to try it out and let me know what you think! Thanks for your support!

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Very cool idea! I tried uploading a 25MB pdf to test it out and I got this error message: “request entity too large”

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Oh my god, I was looking for exactly this since almost a year! Will try this out as soon as I can!

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Whoops! Will investigate it, thanks for letting me know!

In the meantime, you can try googling for some “compress pdf” free service on Google, run your document through that, and then try to upload it on pdf.audio again.

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Would it be possible to have it be a service where you could pay x amount to be able to get back as many as you’d like in audio form?

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That’s something I’m planning to add.

In the long term, I’m thinking about expanding this into a subscription for students with many AI tools:

PDF to audio

PDF to flashcards

Lecture audio recording to notes/summary

Chat with PDF

Research tools

any more…

But it would take a long time before I can build all that…

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