https://github.com/richardr1126/openreader-webui
Web EPUB and PDF text to speech document reader. Read documents in realtime with high-quality TTS; or extract audiobooks. Use your own Kokoro TTS API or Open AI API endpoint.
https://github.com/richardr1126/openreader-webui
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Web EPUB and PDF text to speech document reader. Read documents in realtime with high-quality TTS; or extract audiobooks. Use your own Kokoro TTS API or Open AI API endpoint.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/richardr1126/openreader-webui
- Owner: richardr1126
- License: mit
- Created: 2025-01-18T07:36:14.000Z (5 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-03-31T03:26:59.000Z (3 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-31T04:24:07.682Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: document, epub, epub-reader, epubjs, gpt-4o-mini-tts, kokoro-tts, open-ai, open-ai-tts, openai-api, pdf, pdf-reader, pdfjs, text-to-speech, tts
- Language: TypeScript
- Homepage: https://openreader.richardr.dev
- Size: 2.88 MB
- Stars: 110
- Watchers: 7
- Forks: 16
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE
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# OpenReader WebUI 📄🔊
OpenReader WebUI is a document reader with Text-to-Speech capabilities, offering a TTS read along experience with narration for both PDF and EPUB documents. It can use any OpenAI compatible TTS endpoint, including [Kokoro-FastAPI](https://github.com/remsky/Kokoro-FastAPI) and [Orpheus-FastAPI](https://github.com/Lex-au/Orpheus-FastAPI)
> Highly available demo currently available at [https://openreader.richardr.dev/](https://openreader.richardr.dev/)
- 🎯 **TTS API Integration**:
- Compatible with OpenAI text to speech API and GPT-4o Mini TTS, Kokoro-FastAPI TTS, Orpheus FastAPI or any other compatible service
- Support for TTS models (tts-1, tts-1-hd, gpt-4o-mini-tts, kokoro, and custom)
- 💾 **Local-First Architecture**: Uses IndexedDB browser storage for documents
- 🛜 **Optional Server-side documents**: Manually upload documents to the next backend for all users to download
- 📖 **Read Along Experience**: Follow along with highlighted text as the TTS narrates
- 📄 **Document formats**: EPUB, PDF, DOCX (with libreoffice installed)
- 🎧 **Audiobook Creation**: Create and export audiobooks from PDF and ePub files **(in m4b format with ffmpeg and aac TTS output)**
- 📲 **Mobile Support**: Works on mobile devices, and can be added as a PWA web app
- 🎨 **Customizable Experience**:
- 🔑 Set TTS API base URL (and optional API key)
- 🎯 Set model-specific instructions for GPT-4o Mini TTS
- 🏎️ Adjustable playback speed
- 📐 Customize PDF text extraction margins
- 🗣️ Multiple voice options (checks `/v1/audio/voices` endpoint)
- 🎨 Multiple app theme options
> Orpheus-FastAPI will only work through a [fork of Orpheus-FastAPI](https://github.com/richardr1126/LlamaCpp-Orpheus-FastAPI)
### 🛠️ Work in progress
- [x] **Audiobook creation and download** (m4b format)
- [x] **Support for GPT-4o Mini TTS with instructions**
- [x] **Intial e2e testing**: More playwright tests (in progress)
- [x] **Orpheus-FastAPI support**: (in progress, submitted PR to Orpheus-FastAPI)
- [ ] **More document formats**: .txt, .md, native .docx support
- [ ] **Support non-OpenAI TTS APIs**: ElevenLabs, etc.
- [ ] **Accessibility Improvements**
## 🐳 Docker Quick Start
### Prerequisites
- Recent version of Docker installed on your machine
- A TTS API server (Kokoro-FastAPI, Orpheus-FastAPI, or OpenAI API)
```bash
docker run --name openreader-webui \
-p 3003:3003 \
-v openreader_docstore:/app/docstore \
ghcr.io/richardr1126/openreader-webui:latest
```
(Optionally): Set the TTS `API_BASE` URL and/or `API_KEY` to be default for all devices
```bash
docker run --name openreader-webui \
-e API_BASE=http://host.docker.internal:8880/v1 \
-p 3003:3003 \
-v openreader_docstore:/app/docstore \
ghcr.io/richardr1126/openreader-webui:latest
```
> Requesting audio from the TTS API happens on the Next.js server not the client. So the base URL for the TTS API should be accessible and relative to the Next.js server. If it is in a Docker you may need to use `host.docker.internal` to access the host machine, instead of `localhost`.
Visit [http://localhost:3003](http://localhost:3003) to run the app and set your settings.
> **Note:** The `openreader_docstore` volume is used to store server-side documents. You can mount a local directory instead. Or remove it if you don't need server-side documents.
### ⬆️ Update Docker Image
```bash
docker stop openreader-webui && \
docker rm openreader-webui && \
docker pull ghcr.io/richardr1126/openreader-webui:latest
```
### Adding to a Docker Compose (i.e. with open-webui or Kokoro-FastAPI)
> Note: This is an example of how to add OpenReader WebUI to a docker-compose file. You can add it to your existing docker-compose file or create a new one in this directory. Then run `docker-compose up --build` to start the services.
```bash
Create or add to a `docker-compose.yml`:
```yaml
volumes:
docstore:
services:
openreader-webui:
container_name: openreader-webui
image: ghcr.io/richardr1126/openreader-webui:latest
environment:
- API_BASE=http://host.docker.internal:8880/v1
ports:
- "3003:3003"
volumes:
- docstore:/app/docstore
restart: unless-stopped
```
## Dev Installation
### Prerequisites
- Node.js & npm (recommended: use [nvm](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm))
Optionally required for different features:
- [FFmpeg](https://ffmpeg.org) (required for audiobook m4b creation only)
- [libreoffice](https://www.libreoffice.org) (required for DOCX files)
- On Linux: `sudo apt install ffmpeg libreoffice`
- On MacOS: `brew install ffmpeg libreoffice`
### Steps
1. Clone the repository:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/richardr1126/OpenReader-WebUI.git
cd OpenReader-WebUI
```
2. Install dependencies:
```bash
npm install
```
3. Configure the environment:
```bash
cp template.env .env
# Edit .env with your configuration settings
```
> Note: The base URL for the TTS API should be accessible and relative to the Next.js server
4. Start the development server:
```bash
npm run dev
```
or build and run the production server:
```bash
npm run build
npm start
```
Visit [http://localhost:3003](http://localhost:3003) to run the app.
## 💡 Feature requests
For feature requests or ideas you have for the project, please use the [Discussions](https://github.com/richardr1126/OpenReader-WebUI/discussions) tab.
## 🙋♂️ Support and issues
If you encounter issues, please open an issue on GitHub following the template (which is very light).
## 👥 Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Fork the repository and submit a pull request with your changes.
## ❤️ Acknowledgements
- [Kokoro-FastAPI](https://github.com/remsky/Kokoro-FastAPI) for the API wrapper
- [react-pdf](https://github.com/wojtekmaj/react-pdf)
- [react-reader](https://github.com/happyr/react-reader)
- [Kokoro-82M](https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M) for text-to-speech
## Docker Supported Architectures
- linux/amd64 (x86_64)
- linux/arm64 (Apple Silicon)
## Stack
- **Framework:** Next.js (React)
- **Containerization:** Docker
- **Storage:** IndexedDB (in browser db store)
- **PDF:**
- [react-pdf](https://github.com/wojtekmaj/react-pdf)
- [pdf.js](https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/)
- **EPUB:**
- [react-reader](https://github.com/gerhardsletten/react-reader)
- [epubjs](https://github.com/futurepress/epub.js/)
- **UI:**
- [Tailwind CSS](https://tailwindcss.com)
- [Headless UI](https://headlessui.com)
- **TTS:** (tested on)
- [OpenAI API](https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/text-to-speech)
- [Kokoro FastAPI TTS](https://github.com/remsky/Kokoro-FastAPI/tree/v0.0.5post1-stable)
- **NLP:** [compromise](https://github.com/spencermountain/compromise) NLP library for sentence splitting
## License
This project is licensed under the MIT License.