# Drop a PDF here to get an audiobook

**What you do**

1. Put the PDF in this folder (`_incoming/`). In Gitea: open `_incoming`, choose **Add file > Upload file**, drop the PDF, commit to `main`.
2. That is all. Nothing else to click, nobody to ask.

**What happens next (automatic, no bot)**

A job on the 5060 machine reads the PDF, cleans the text, finds every chapter, writes the narration script and the license note, speaks every chapter in the locked voice (Michael, Chatterbox), builds one MP3 per chapter plus opening credits, closing credits and a retail sample, checks every file against the Audible/ACX numbers, and commits the finished book back to `main`. The PDF moves out of `_incoming/` in that same commit.

**Where the audio appears**

`books/<author-surname-first>/<book-title>/audio/` (one MP3 per chapter, credits, retail sample, `run.log` with the ACX check table).
Next to it: `text/`, `script/`, `figures/skipped_figures.md`, `book.json`, `warnings.log`, `LICENSE_STATUS.md`, and the PDF.
Example: `books/clark-glenn/the-man-who-tapped-the-secrets-of-the-universe/audio/`

**How to see progress**

Open the repo's **Actions** tab (https://gitea.vps1.afterthedemo.com/Ty_Tech/old-books/actions). The run named `audiobook` is yours. Green = finished and committed. Red = it stopped, and the log says which step failed and why. A red run commits nothing and leaves the PDF here; fix the cause, then push anything that touches the PDF again, or use **Run workflow** on the Actions page and give it the PDF path.
Long books take hours. About 1 hour of audio takes about 30 minutes to render.

**Good to know**

- Title and author are read from the PDF. If the PDF has no "By <Name>" line, the file name `Some Title - by First Last.pdf` is used. If neither works, the run fails and says so; then add a small file next to the PDF with the same name and `.json`, for example `my-book.json` containing `{"title": "My Book", "author": "First Last"}`.
- Scanned pages with no text layer are OCRed automatically. OCR mistakes are listed in `warnings.log`.
- Dropping the same PDF again skips audio that already exists.
- License status defaults to unknown and never blocks anything. Nothing is published anywhere outside this repo.
- Summaries (chapter preview, chapter-end summary, mid-chapter summary) are off. Turn them on per book in `book.json` under `summaries`.