cli-pdf-to-text
| Crates.io | cli-pdf-to-text |
| lib.rs | cli-pdf-to-text |
| version | 0.1.18 |
| created_at | 2024-06-13 17:42:43.3595+00 |
| updated_at | 2025-09-25 20:07:40.786182+00 |
| description | A CLI pdf to plain text converter |
| homepage | |
| repository | https://github.com/kruseio/hygg |
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| id | 1270865 |
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Ragnar Kruse (kruseio)
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README
hygg
📚 Simplifying the way you read.
Minimalistic Vim-like TUI document reader.
Why hygg?
- Universal document support - PDF, EPUB, DOCX, and many more formats via pandoc. Supports scanned documents with OCR
- Lightning-fast keyboard based navigation - Vim-inspired keybindings
- Powerful search - Find anything instantly, highlight important passages, add bookmarks
- Never lose your place - Automatic progress saving
- Extensible workflows - Execute commands directly from copied text
- Respects your privacy - Run locally without server, or selfhost the sync server
Quick start guide
cargo install --locked hygg
hygg doc.pdf
For further install instructions read the Getting started page
Features
Core Reading Experience
- Minimalist interface - Nothing between you and your content
- Smart text justification - Perfectly formatted for your terminal width
- Vim keybindings - Navigate with the efficiency you already know
- Visual selection - Select, copy, highlight text
- Bookmarks - Set bookmark points and jump between them instantly
- Persistent - Progress and bookmarks persist
Advanced Workflows
- Command execution - Run shell commands from copied text, also works for previous command output
- Split view - View command output alongside your document
- Interactive tutorial - Learn everything in under 5 minutes
- Cross-platform - Works on Linux, macOS, and Windows
Roadmap
- Plain text format support
- PDF format support
- EPUB format support
- Convert scanned documents and images to plain text with ocrmypdf
- Auto saving progress
- Integrated command line with vim like commands
- Text selection and yanking
- Execute commands from yanked text
- Text highlighting
- Bookmarks
- Interactive tutorial
- Self hosted sync server for docs, progress, bookmarks, highlights and notes
- Offline PWA web client
- Start screen to show overview of books and progress
- Minimal build feature flag, for only basic converters, no server integration and no ai
- Image to ascii art converter
- Natural sounding ai voice model for text to speech narration
- Run all inference directly in rust no external runtime deps
- Support more ebook and document formats
- AI-powered document summarization
- Reading statistics and insights
Documentation
Visit the Documentation
Community
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Contributors
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