Telegram PDF Bot

A Telegram bot that can:

Compress, crop, decrypt, encrypt, merge, preview, rename, rotate, scale and split PDF files
Compare text differences between two PDF files
Create PDF files from text messages
Add watermark to PDF files
Add text layers to PDF files to make them searchable with text
Extract images and text from PDF files
Convert PDF files into images
Beautify handwritten notes images into PDF files
Convert webpages and images into PDF files

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes

Setup Database

The bot uses Datastore on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Create a new project on GCP and enabble Datastore in the project. Install the gcloud CLI and run gcloud init to initialise it with your project.

OS Requirements

Ubuntu

apt-get install poppler-utils libcairo2 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libffi-dev shared-mime-info

macOS

brew install libxml2 libxslt poppler cairo pango gdk-pixbuf libffi

Setup Virtual Environment

Create a virtual environment with the following command:

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Bot Requirements

Run the following command to install the required packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Compile the translation files

Run the following command to compile all the translation files:

pybabel compile -D pdf_bot -d locale/

Setup Your Environment Variables

Copy the .env example file and edit the variables within the file:

cp .env.example .env

Running The Bot

You can then start the bot with the following command:

python bot.py

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