RusticReader

A minimalistic ebook reader

Overview

The goal of this project is to build an ebook reader that has a minimal set of features, that make ebook reading enjoyable on a desktop computer. Furthermore we are building a seamless experience for reading ebooks, both on a desktop computer and a tablet or ereader with a browser.

Features

• CLI client
  • Converts regular or scanned PDF or EPUB to plain text
  • Justifies the plain text to specified column width
  • Horizontally centers the text
  • Minimalistic less like interactive reader with vim like bindings
  • Saves progress
  • Written in pure Rust
  • Cross platform
  • Each component in the CLI client is exposed as a UNIX style utility

Quick start guide

Install the CLI client

cargo install --locked rustic-reader
rustic-reader document.pdf

for scanned document support

sudo apt install ocrmypdf tesseract-ocr-eng

then use the --ocr=true flag

rustic-reader --ocr=true document.pdf

For further install instructions read the Getting started page

Documentation

Visit the Documentation

Roadmap

• Plain text format support
• PDF format support
• EPUB format support
• Convert scanned documents and images to plain text with ocrmypdf
• Auto saving progress
• Offline PWA web client
• Server to sync progress
• Integrated command line
• Text highlighting
• Extend server to sync books and highlights
• Support more ebook and document formats
• CLI client image to ascii art converter
• Natural sounding ai voice model for text to speech narration