"Universal access to knowledge is a collective responsibility. Sustainability fuels the mission."
pdfreaderX is a high-performance, institutional-grade PDF document platform engineered for the modern web. It provides a specialized, privacy-centric environment for reading, annotating, and listening to PDF documents with advanced text-to-speech capabilities.
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| 📴 Offline Mode | Read PDFs without internet after first load |
| 📱 PWA | Install as native app on any device |
| 📄 Local Default PDF | Built-in motivational quotes document |
| 🔊 Continuous Reading | Automatically reads through entire PDF, page by page |
| 💾 Audio Export | Save TTS audio as MP3 (Google/OpenAI providers) |
| 🖨️ Print Support | Print current page via browser dialog |
| 🖥️ Electron Desktop | Windows .exe installer |
| 🐛 Bug Fixes | Thumbnail quality, thumbnail rendering improvements |
| Type | File | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Installer | PDFReaderX Setup 1.0.1.exe | ~120 MB |
Access the pdfreaderX web app directly at: pdfreaderx.itforsec.com/
- 3 TTS Providers: Browser (free), OpenAI (ultra-realistic), Google Neural2 (free tier)
- Continuous Mode: Auto-reads all pages sequentially
- Audio Export: Download generated audio as MP3
- Speed Control: Adjustable rate (0.25x - 4.0x)
- Voice Selection: Multiple voices per provider
- 📖 High-fidelity PDF.js rendering
- 🔍 Zoom (10% - 500%) + rotation (90° increments)
- 📑 Page navigation (prev/next + jump to page)
- 🔎 Search through entire document
- 🖼️ Thumbnail sidebar
- 🔖 Bookmarks with localStorage persistence
- 🖨️ Print support
- 🔒 Zero Tracking: No analytics, no telemetry
- 💻 Local Processing: PDF.js worker runs locally
- 🔑 API Keys: Stored on-device only
- 🌐 No External Servers: Keys go directly to OpenAI/Google
- 📱 Installable: Add to home screen on any device
- 📴 Offline: Works without internet after first load
- 🔄 Auto-Update: Service worker updates in background
| Platform | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 🌐 Web | ✅ | PWA installable |
| 🪟 Windows | ✅ | .exe installer |
| 🍎 macOS | 🔄 | Build config ready |
| 🐧 Linux | 🔄 | Build config ready |
| 📱 iOS/Android | ✅ | Responsive |
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Start development server
npm run dev
# Open http://localhost:5173# Build for production
npm run build
# Output: dist/ folder# Development mode
npm run electron:dev
# Build Windows installer
npm run electron:build
# Output: release/PDFReaderX Setup 1.0.1.exe| Provider | Quality | Cost | Audio Export |
|---|---|---|---|
| Browser | Good | Free | ❌ |
| OpenAI | Ultra-realistic | Pay-per-use | ✅ |
| Neural2 | Free tier | ✅ |
OpenAI (https://platform.openai.com/api-keys)
- Model: tts-1
- Cost: ~$0.003/1,000 characters
- Voices: alloy, echo, fable, onyx, nova, shimmer
Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech)
- Free tier: 4M characters/month
- Premium: $4/1M characters
- Voices: Neural2 (18 languages)
pdfreaderX/
├── src/
│ ├── components/
│ │ ├── Controls/
│ │ │ ├── Toolbar.tsx # Main toolbar
│ │ │ └── VoicePanel.tsx # TTS controls
│ │ ├── PDFViewer.tsx # PDF rendering
│ │ ├── Sidebar.tsx # Navigation
│ │ ├── Thumbnail.tsx # Page thumbnails
│ │ └── Settings/
│ │ └── SettingsModal.tsx # Settings
│ ├── hooks/
│ │ └── useSpeech.ts # TTS logic
│ ├── store/
│ │ └── usePdfStore.ts # Zustand state
│ └── App.tsx # Main app
├── electron/
│ ├── main.cjs # Electron main
│ └── preload.cjs # Preload script
├── dist/ # Built web files
├── release/ # Built executables
├── package.json
├── vite.config.ts
└── README.md
| Issue | Status | Workaround |
|---|---|---|
| Large PDFs (>50MB) | Use local files | |
| Browser TTS export | ❌ Not supported | Switch to Google/OpenAI |
| Print formatting | Adjust zoom before print | |
| Shared devices | Clear localStorage |
- Error boundaries for better error handling
- Keyboard shortcuts (arrow keys for navigation)
- Recent files history
- Dark mode toggle
- Table of Contents extraction (PDF outline)
- Persistent text highlights/annotations
- Multi-page audio batch export
- Custom page range selection
- Local LLM via Ollama for Q&A
- Transformers.js summarization
- RAG-based semantic search
- Auto-summarize pages
- System tray (minimize to tray)
- Global media key support
- File association (.pdf)
- Auto-updater
- macOS/Linux builds
- Check browser console for errors
- Verify API keys in Settings → Voice Engine
- Try local PDF files first
- Clear localStorage to reset:
localStorage.clear()
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2026 pdfreaderX
Copyright (c) 2026 wikicrafter
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THE SOFTWARE.
Version: 1.0.1
Author: wikicrafter
License: MIT © 2026