[FR] Collaboration and integration for my new plugin

[tu2-atmanand]

Describe your request

Hii @RyotaUshio,

I was actually planning for a plugin to manage all my local books from a long time, more of like a Library Management system. Also, one of the most important feature the plugin should have is Speech Reading similar to Speechify.

Initially, I thought of creating a plugin just for creating a View and the Management stuff. And another part will be for Speech Reader controls inside the reader. So, I had options to refer to other plugins like Awesome Reader, Annotator, etc (which also has support for EPUB files). But having a simple reader won't be a good idea, and having an annotator to highlight and take notes will provide a great power to the user to add annotations while listening to their books. And I must say, your plugin has the best features for doing the same and giving the best experience to users.

Hence I started the development of my plugin by creating fork from PDF++ : Library - plugin for Obsidian

Reasons for creating a fork :

• I was actually wondering if PDF++ could develop few APIs, so all the annotations and editing features can be integrated through PDF++ and Library plugin will be only for management and Speech Reader. But since in an open-source environment, we obviously cannot rely on anyone here to achieve what we want.
• I will try to integrate your codebase into the Library plugin functionalities by creating various APIs in PDF++ codebase. Later on, I can create a PR for you to integrate all this APIs in PDF++.
• I want to implement the Speech Reader feature (explaned in detail on my repo Readme) into PDF++ itself so both the annotations and Speech reading works smoothly. I will create a PR for this as well to have the same functionality in PDF++, or I can create a separate plugin also, so it will be compatible with PDF++, so users can install it only if they want it.

Once all the above mentioned tasks has been accomplished. I will remove all the PDF++ features from Library plugin. So, Library plugin can only work as a management tool and a Speech Reader. And if users want annotations power, they can install the PDF++, and it will be seemlessly work with Library plugin.

Roadmap

So, here what I am suggesting to have an efficient roadmap :

• I'll try to integrate my functionalities with the current state of PDF++( v0.40.13 ).
• Ill create some APIs in PDF++ codebase, which will be crucial for Library plugin to work with PDF++. And will create a PR for the same.
• Later will also create issues to request for more APIs, to integrate the further features, you have planned from your Issues section in the future.
• Ill try to implement the Speech Reader functionality, and will create a PR to complete the following issue : [FR] TTS Support #299
• Later, my plugin will only act as a management tool and for speech reader and for the annotation and rest of the functionalities users can install your plugin.

Let me know your thoughts on this and also what are you plans to have the epub support. I referred plugins like ePub Reader, Awesome Reader and Annotator. I personally feel, you can refer to the best approach from this plugins, and integrate epub support in PDF++ such that your current implementation of PDF++ will also work with epub files, like Auto-pasting, auto-focus, etc. Still I am not sure, I dont have much experience in epub files, nor have used them much, so wont be working on that part for Library plugin, relying on you to have the integration of epub file support.