sharanya02/text-file-to-handwritten-pdf-file

Converts a text file to a handwritten pdf file.

Text to Handwriting converter

Convert text files into handwritten PDF

Functionalities

• Convert a text document (.txt file) into a PDF file with the text content handwritten

Pre-requisites:

• python 3.5 or 3.6
• Install Tesseract: an open source text recognition (OCR) Engine
• dependencies from requirements.txt

 $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Installing required python dependencies

• Clone this repository onto your system

$ git clone https://github.com/sharanya02/Text-file-to-handwritten-pdf-file

• Then, create a virtual environment and install the packages from requirements.txt.

$ python3 -m venv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Directions to run

• Run the following command in the project directory:-

$ python txttohandwriting.py

Demo

text-file-to-handwritten-pdf-file's Issues

Gg

FileNotFoundError on first run.

After cloning, creating a virtual environment using venv and installing requirements, running the script for the first time gives an FileNotFoundError:

python txttohandwriting.py
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'final_output.pdf'

I worked around it by creating an empty file by the name final_output.pdf and then running the script again, which seems to work.

It would be better if file creation was handled by the script, or some mention of this issue in the README.md was made.

Add example image to the README

This would be quite helpful.

Runtime error on executing the txttohandwriting.py script

I'm getting the above error when I run the script. I've followed all the steps and resolved all the dependencies. Help will be appreciated.

Unhandled Exception in ScannedImages-to-PDF.py

Hi,

I am seeing this error when I run ScannedImages-to-PDF.py:

It says: error: the following arguments are required: -i/--image
Am I doing something wrong?

Proper instructions for OCR file

Please add proper instructions for OCR recognition file.

Too much execution time

Please optimize your code. It's taking more than 10 mins for 2 pages of text. Is this feasible for an end product?

@mdhishaamakhtar please look into this.

bg.png file is missing

Hello,

The bg.png file is missing, you can upload this into repository.
Good luck,

Regards,
Max Base

Delete png after pdf is generated

Please add scripts to delete the pngs after pdf is generated

Incompleate requirements.txt

requirements.txt is incomplete. Not all dependencies and versions are listed.

ie $pip install requirements.txt throws an error

My PL may resolve this issue