Update PDF_reading_software.py

PDF_reading_software.py

@@ -9,10 +9,9 @@
 import tkinter as tk
 import fitz
 
+# In this function we get first and last page, which we want the software to read
 def get_text(value):
-
- global first_page_number,last_page_number
-
+
  string = value
  string = string.strip()
  if "-" in string:
@@ -33,8 +32,6 @@ def main():
  os.makedirs(final_directory)
  print(current_directory)
  print(final_directory)
- #exit()
-
 
  #### GUI Part #####
 
@@ -44,7 +41,7 @@ def main():
  [sg.Button('Ok'), sg.Button('Cancel')]
  ]
 
- # Create the Window
+ # Create the GUI Window Prompt
  window = sg.Window('Input', layout)
  valid = False
  # Event Loop to process "events" and get the "values" of the inputs
@@ -73,25 +70,26 @@ def main():
  else:
  valid=True
  break
-
+ # Break while loop if valid first and last page numbers received 
  if valid==True:
  print('You entered ', values[1])
  break 
 
  window.close()
  first_page_number,last_page_number = get_text(values[1])
 
+ # In this bunch of code, we get permission to delete the folder if it already exists, where we intend to save our PDF images and audio
  image_directory = glob.glob(final_directory)
  for file in os.listdir(final_directory):
  filepath = os.path.join(final_directory,file)
  print(filepath)
  os.chmod(filepath, 0o777)
  os.remove(filepath)
 
-
+ # Here we read desired PDF pages and store them as images in a folder
  doc = fitz.open(pdf_to_read)
  k=1
- # If its not a range of pages
+ # If user wants to read a single page
  if last_page_number == 0:
  page = doc.loadPage(first_page_number-1) #number of page
  zoom_x = 2.0
@@ -101,7 +99,7 @@ def main():
  output = os.path.join(final_directory, r"image_to_read.png")
  pix.writePNG(output)
 
-
+ # If user wants to read range of pages
  else:
  for i in range(first_page_number-1,last_page_number):
  page = doc.loadPage(i) #number of page
@@ -115,13 +113,14 @@ def main():
 
  print("Done")
 
-
+ # Initialize the Pytesseract OCR software
  pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r"C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe"
 
- #image_to_read = filedialog.askopenfilename()
+
  mytext = []
 
  # Here we load the image(s) created in Text_to_speech folder and read the text in image via pytesseract Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software
+ # thus reading text in images and giving us a string
  for file in os.listdir(final_directory): 
  data = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(os.path.join(final_directory,file)),lang="eng")
  data = data.replace("|","I") # For some reason the image to text translation would put | instead of the letter I. So we replace | with I
@@ -133,6 +132,9 @@ def main():
  language = 'en'
 
  print(mytext)
+
+ # Here we make sure that the text is read correctly and we read it line by line. Because sometimes, text would end abruptly
+
  newtext= ""
  for text in mytext:
  for line in text: