hygg

Simplifying the way you read

Overview

The goal of this project is to build an ebook and document reader that has a minimal set of features, that make reading enjoyable on a desktop computer.

A large emphasis is on making a minimalistic and distraction free environment for you to easily focus on what is important, the content.

Furthermore we are working on building a seamless experience for reading ebooks but also more generally documents, both on a desktop computer and a tablet or e-reader with a browser.

Features

• CLI client
  • Converts regular or scanned PDF or EPUB to plain text
  • Justifies the plain text to specified column width
  • Horizontally centers the text
  • Minimalistic less like interactive reader with vim like bindings (still work in progress)
  • Saves progress
  • Cross platform
  • Each component in the CLI client is exposed as a UNIX style utility for easy code reuse in your own open source project

Quick start guide

Install the CLI client

cargo install --locked hygg
hygg doc.pdf

for scanned document support

sudo apt install ocrmypdf tesseract-ocr-eng

then use the --ocr=true flag

hygg --ocr=true doc.pdf

For further install instructions read the Getting started page

Documentation

Visit the Documentation

Roadmap

• Plain text format support
• PDF format support
• EPUB format support
• Convert scanned documents and images to plain text with ocrmypdf
• Auto saving progress
• Integrated command line with vim like commands
• Server to sync progress and books
• Text highlighting with server sync
• Start screen to show overview of books and progress
• Full test suite
• CI / CD pipelines
• Minimal build feature flag, for only basic converters, no server integration and no ai
• Image to ascii art converter
• Natural sounding ai voice model for text to speech narration
• Run all inference directly in rust
• Offline PWA web client
• Support more ebook and document formats