📖 VANT Reader

Modern, Minimalist & Blazing-Fast Desktop PDF & EPUB Reader with Speed Reading Engine

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✨ Features

• 📑 Fast PDF & EPUB Rendering: High-performance page rendering powered by PyMuPDF (fitz).
• ⚡ RSVP Speed Reading Engine:
  • Focus point (ORP - Optimal Recognition Point) alignment.
  • Adjustable WPM (100 - 1000 WPM).
  • Punctuation & sentence pauses for natural comprehension.
  • Audio metronome tick synchronization.
• 🎨 Annotations & Vector Drawing:
  • Freehand Pen and Highlighter with customizable colors.
  • Smart Eraser, Undo (Ctrl+Z), and Redo (Ctrl+Y).
  • Export Annotated PDF: Burns pen & highlighter strokes into the PDF as standard PDF Ink Annotations compatible with Adobe Acrobat and mobile viewers.
• 🔍 In-Document Real-time Search (Ctrl+F):
  • Instant page-by-page and document-wide text matching with live match counts (1 / 14).
  • Highlighted search match overlay in both single and dual page modes.
  • F3 (Next) / Shift+F3 (Previous) keyboard shortcuts.
• 🔄 Page Rotation (Ctrl+R): Rotate pages 90°/180°/270° clockwise with coordinate auto-alignment.
• 📖 Single & Dual Page View: Read documents in side-by-side book spread mode or single-page continuous view.
• 🏷️ Library Management & Reading Status:
  • Custom Folders / Collections.
  • Status badges (Currently Reading, Completed, Plan to Read).
  • Search, sort by title/author/date, and grid/list view toggles.
  • Drag and drop .pdf / .epub files directly into the window.
• 🌐 Multilingual Support (5 Languages): English, Türkçe, Italiano, Español, Français.
• 🔔 Sleek Bottom-Right Toast Notifications: Micro-animated, unobtrusive status pills for exports and actions.
• 🌙 Modern Dark-Mode & Minimalist UI: Clean typography, smooth transitions, and distraction-free layout.

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🚀 Quick Start

1. Prerequisites

• Python 3.10+ installed.

2. Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/vant-reader.git
cd vant-reader

# Install required dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run Application

python main.py

(On Windows, you can also double-click run.bat)

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⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Left / PageUp	Previous Page
Right / PageDown / Space	Next Page
Ctrl + + / Ctrl + -	Zoom In / Out
Ctrl + 0	Fit to Width
Ctrl + F	Open In-Document Search
F3 / Shift + F3	Next / Previous Search Match
Ctrl + R	Rotate Page 90° Clockwise
Ctrl + C	Copy Selected Text
Ctrl + T	Translate Selected Text
Ctrl + Z / Ctrl + Y	Undo / Redo Annotation
Esc	Close Search / Return to Library

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• GUI Framework: PySide6 (Qt for Python)
• PDF & Document Engine: PyMuPDF (fitz)
• Image Processing: Pillow
• Database: SQLite3 (Local metadata & annotations cache)
• Audio Engine: QtMultimedia (QSoundEffect)

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📦 Standalone Executable Build

To build a standalone single-file .exe on Windows (no Python runtime required for end users):

pip install pyinstaller
pyinstaller --noconsole --onefile --name "VANT_Reader" --add-data "app/assets;app/assets" --clean main.py

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.