kindle-pdf-capture
Capture Kindle for Mac pages via screen recording and build a high-quality PDF (with optional OCR).
Features
- Automatic content-region detection (strips window chrome, title bar, and Kindle header)
- Background capture via Quartz — no need to keep Kindle in the foreground
- Smart page-turn detection (frame-diff polling, no fixed sleep)
- LTR and RTL (manga) support via
--direction - Book-like PDF page sizing (300 DPI default)
- Optional OCR text layer via Tesseract (for non-macOS viewers; macOS Live Text works without it)
- End-of-book auto-detection (duplicate-frame streak)
- Manual cover-region selection via
--manual-crop(drag-to-select UI for books with all-white covers)
Quick start
# Install (without OCR)
uv sync
# Install with OCR support
brew install tesseract tesseract-lang ghostscript
uv sync --all-extras
# Capture a book (open Kindle to the first page first)
uv run kpc --out output/my-book
# Capture a right-to-left book (manga)
uv run kpc --out output/my-manga --direction left
# Capture with OCR (requires --all-extras install above)
uv run kpc --out output/my-book --ocr
# Capture a book with an all-white cover (manual region selection)
uv run kpc --out output/my-book --manual-crop
# See all options
uv run kpc --help
Documentation
- Installation · インストール
- Usage · 使い方
- macOS permissions · macOS 権限
- Architecture · アーキテクチャ
- Troubleshooting · トラブルシューティング
- Legal · 法的事項
License
MIT — see LICENSE.
1 maintainer
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