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Show HN: Readability for web and PDFs with TTS and local AI summary

https://github.com/ldenoue/readability-read-aloud-web-pdf-ai-summary
3•ldenoue•1h ago

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ldenoue•1h ago
weekend project that uses the latest Chrome Summarizer API, but also YOLO to process PDF pages and find images, tables, and math formulas.

Readability (Mozilla) is used when you open regular web pages, but PDF.JS (also Mozilla!!) is used to render each page, run YOLO region detection and then generate a clean HTML. Math formulas are rendered as Latex, and tables are rendered into HTML by detecting their structure using Texo/FormulaNet.

Finally, you can read out loud the readable articles/PDFs using another local TTS (I prefer PocketTTS personally, but wanted to try the newly released and tiny Inflect TTS as well, so it's an option).

Let me know if you find this useful.

I should probably publish them to the Chrome and Firefox stores.

ldenoue•54m ago
extension for Chrome will be here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gpgkihaonhnhfabcmgn...

I've converted my website to grayscale

https://rz01.org/qmx/
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Persistent Money Struggles Linked to Faster Brain Ageing

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