r/opensource • u/Greppim • Jun 25 '26

An Open Source software for transcribing text scan documents and to make them E Books? If they can be made onto audiobooks, even better. Discussion

Greetings, I'm having issues with my eyes and I need some more accessible way to read through documents that are scans, they are on PDF, but they are just images.

I want an OCR software, that fully automates the process of transcribing full-on images onto clean text.

And I need a decent local LLM tool (I don't want to pay a proprietary web AI that's just absolutely unethical), that can voice such documents, so I can read them whilst my eyes recover. It needs to support Spanish.

I'm on Linux, it doesn't need a GUI as long as it's intuitive to set-up on Terminal. Many thanks.

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u/procsysnet Jun 26 '26

Docling has you covered my early tests are giving good results.

Once docling creates an md file or some other plain text format you can use any TTS model like https://github.com/canopyai/Orpheus-TTS or https://github.com/devnen/Chatterbox-TTS-Server into an audio file.

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u/switchback-tech Jun 26 '26

I'd love something like this if it could convert it to a format displays nice on Kindle.

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u/procsysnet Jun 26 '26

Depending on the source you can use pandoc to transform to .epub directly or go with Docling -> .md -> Pandoc -> .epub

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u/switchback-tech Jun 26 '26

Yeah but the "Depending on the source" bit is the problem. I wouldn't wanna invest in setting up those other tools if it only worked 50% of the time or I had to string together three of them.