Tools to generate XTC ebooks for XTeink ereaders

Prerequisites

Requires pillow. On MacOS, install e.g. via brew install pillow.

Usage

python3 png2xtc.py <input> <output>

where

• <input> can be a single .png file or a folder of .png files
• <output> is the name of the XTC or XTG file (XTG for single image)

Sample toolchain to convert epub to XTC

See epub2xtc.sh.

Run via

./epub2xtc.sh input.epub output.xtc

The script requires

1. Calibre (for ebook-convert)
2. mu-tools (faster) or ImageMagick (to convert PDF to PNG)

Status / TODOs

• Convert single PNG to black&white XTG
• Convert folder of PNGs to XTC
• Convert to grayscale (2bit per pixel) to XTH
• Implement Thumbnails in XTC
• Implement Metadata in XTC
• Implement Chapter Structure in XTC