Purpose: This bash script for MacOS is used to convert the most latest created PDF in the same directory into a single text movie video with embedded speech synthesis.

Quick installation: brew install --build-from-source pdftotextmovie (Only one line!)

To run: pdftotextmovie in the directory of the latest pdf.

To run from source:

1. gh repo clone shyamalschandra/pdftotextmovie
2. cd pdftotextmovie
3. Follow the prequisities below.

Preliminary Prerequisites:

0. First, install homebrew and pip on MacOS device.
1. Please do a brew install pkg-config poppler.
2. Please do a sudo pip install --user pdftotext.
3. Please do a brew install ffmpeg.
4. Please do a sudo pip install --user numpy.
5. Run the following commands in this comment.
6. Please do a brew install imagemagick.
7. Download the model for Zoe (Premium) from the voices under Accessibility -> Spoken Content -> System Voice -> under English (US).

Also, do a chmod +x pdf2textmovie.sh when you get into the 'pdftotextmovie' folder before running.

Example argument list with the command inside the directory of the PDF that needs to be converted into a text movie with embedded speech synthesis:

./pdf2textmovie.sh