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[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-blue.svg)](#license)
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# OpenReader WebUI
# OpenReader WebUI 📄🔊
OpenReader WebUI is web-based reader Text-to-Speech capabilities, offering a TTS read along experience with narration for both PDF and EPUB documents. It can use any OpenAI compatible TTS endpoint, including [Kokoro-FastAPI](https://github.com/remsky/Kokoro-FastAPI/tree/v0.0.5post1-stable).
- 🎯 **TTS API Integration**: Compatible with OpenAI API TTS and Kokoro FastAPI TTS, enabling high-quality voice narration
- 💾 **Local-First Architecture**: Secure document handling with IndexedDB browser storage - no server uploads required
- 🔍 **Smart Text Processing**: Real-time sentence detection and synchronized text highlighting during playback
- 🎯 **TTS API Integration**: Compatible with OpenAI text to speech API, Kokoro FastAPI TTS, or any other compatible service; enabling high-quality voice narration
- 💾 **Local-First Architecture**: Uses IndexedDB browser storage - no server uploads required
- 🛜 **Optional Server-side documents**: Manually upload documents to the next backend for all users to download
- 🔍 **Smart Text Processing**: Splits content into sentence blocks (ePub tries to split at paragraphs)
- 📚 **EPUB Support**: Read EPUB files with table of contents and synchronized text
- 📄 **PDF Support**: Read PDF files with text extraction and page navigation
- ⚡ **Modern Tech Stack**: Built with Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS
- ⚡ **Modern Tech Stack**: Built with Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, and some Headless UI React
- 🎨 **Customizable Experience**:
- Set TTS API base URL (with optional API key)
- Adjustable playback speed
- Multiple voice options
- Dark/light/system theme support
- Multiple voice options (checks `/v1/audio/voices` endpoint)
- Multiple app layout theme options
- Persistent user settings
- 📱 **Cross-Platform**: Responsive design works seamlessly across desktop and mobile devices
## **Demo**
## [**Demo**](https://openreader.richardr.dev/)
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1bfc5fc4-8d66-4c71-a3c1-f3ec5b4f4b56
## 🐳 Docker Quick Start
```bash
docker run --name openreader-webui -p 3003:3003 richardr1126/openreader-webui:latest
```
or with server-side doc storage:
```bash
docker run --name openreader-webui \
-p 3003:3003 \
-v openreader_docstore:/app/docstore \
richardr1126/openreader-webui:latest
```
> Note: The `openreader_docstore` volume is used to store server-side documents. You can mount a local directory instead. Or remove it if you don't need server-side documents.
Visit [http://localhost:3003](http://localhost:3003) to run the app.
### Using Docker Compose
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restart: unless-stopped
```
### ⬆️ Update Docker Image
```bash
docker stop openreader-webui && docker rm openreader-webui
docker pull richardr1126/openreader-webui:latest
```
## Dev Installation
### Prerequisites
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> Dev server runs on port 3000 by default, while the production server runs on port 3003.
#### Docker Supported Architectures
## 💡 Feature requests
For feature requests or ideas you have for the project, please use the [Discussions](https://github.com/richardr1126/OpenReader-WebUI/discussions) tab.
## 🙋‍♂️ Support and issues
For general questions, you can reach out to me on [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/richardr.dev). If you encounter issues, please open an issue on GitHub following the template (which is very simple).
## 👥 Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Fork the repository and submit a pull request with your changes.
## ❤️ Acknowledgements
- [Kokoro-FastAPI](https://github.com/remsky/Kokoro-FastAPI) for the API wrapper
- [react-pdf](https://github.com/wojtekmaj/react-pdf)
- [react-reader](https://github.com/happyr/react-reader)
- [Kokoro-82M](https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M) for text-to-speech
## Docker Supported Architectures
- linux/amd64 (x86_64)
- linux/arm64 (Apple Silicon)
- linux/arm/v7 (Raspberry Pi)
## **Features**
- Real-time sentence by sentence text-to-speech via OpenAI API TTS, [Kokoro FastAPI TTS](https://github.com/remsky/Kokoro-FastAPI), or others compatible with the `/v1/audio/speech` endpoint
- IndexedDB-powered local storage
- Synchronized text highlighting during playback (using string similarity for best match on the page)
- Configurable playback speed and voice options, which checks `/v1/audio/voices` for available voices
- Click-to-skip on the same page for navigation
- Responsive design with light, dark, and system themes
- All configuration settings saved in IndexedDB
## Stack
- **Framework:** Next.js (React)
- **Containerization:** Docker
- **Storage:** IndexedDB (in browser db store)
- **PDF Processing:**
- [react-pdf](https://github.com/wojtekmaj/react-pdf)
- [pdf.js](https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/)
- Compromise for text analysis
- [compromise](https://github.com/spencermountain/compromise): NLP library for sentence splitting
- **EPUB Processing:**
- [react-reader](https://github.com/happyr/react-reader)
- [epubjs](https://github.com/futurepress/epub.js/)
- **UI Components:**
- Headless UI
- Tailwind CSS
- **TTS Integration:** anything you want
## Project Structure
```
src/
├── app/ // Next.js app router
├── components/ // Reusable UI components
├── contexts/ // State management contexts
└── services/ // Utility functions & integrations
```
## Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Fork the repository and submit a pull request with your changes. For significant alterations, please open an issue first.
- [Headless UI](https://headlessui.com)
- [Tailwind CSS](https://tailwindcss.com)
- **TTS Integration:** (tested on)
- [OpenAI API](https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/text-to-speech)
- [Kokoro FastAPI TTS](https://github.com/remsky/Kokoro-FastAPI/tree/v0.0.5post1-stable)
## License
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
## Acknowledgements
- [react-pdf](https://github.com/wojtekmaj/react-pdf)
- [react-reader](https://github.com/happyr/react-reader)
- [Kokoro-82M](https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M) for text-to-speech
- [Kokoro-FastAPI](https://github.com/remsky/Kokoro-FastAPI) for the API wrapper
## Support
If you encounter issues or have suggestions, please open an issue on GitHub.

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