# LoredCast/filewizard

File Converter, OCR, Transcription & TTS WebUI

Repository: https://github.com/LoredCast/filewizard
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/filewizard
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-11-11T18:25:35+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 46/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 51, release rhythm 53, longevity 25
- inputs: {"age_days": 350, "days_push": 295, "days_rel": 312, "gap_med": 3, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1102, forks 72 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:35.934749+00:00)

## What it is
A self-hosted, browser-based web UI for converting files between many formats, running OCR on PDFs and images, transcribing audio with Whisper, and text-to-speech. It wraps CLI tools like FFmpeg, LibreOffice, Pandoc, ImageMagick, Tesseract, and faster-whisper behind a FastAPI backend with background job processing.

## Use cases
- convert video and audio files between formats in a browser
- extract text from scanned pdfs with ocr
- transcribe voice recordings to text locally
- convert documents with libreoffice and pandoc without installing each tool
- self-host a private file conversion service
- run whisper transcription on a home server
- batch convert images with imagemagick via web ui

## When to choose
- you want a local, private alternative to online file converters
- you need one web UI covering conversion, OCR, and transcription
- you run a home server or homelab with Docker
- you want to keep sensitive documents off third-party converter sites

## When to avoid
- you need a hardened, publicly exposed service without an OAuth/OIDC proxy (risk of arbitrary code execution)
- you only need a single conversion type and prefer a lightweight CLI tool
- you cannot run Docker or install heavy dependencies like LibreOffice and TeX

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: ocr, tts, speech-recognition, pdf, file-system, self-hosted, http-server
- domain: files, pdf, self-hosted, developer-tools, media
- platform: self-hosted, python
- tags: file-conversion, whisper, tesseract, ffmpeg, libreoffice, pandoc, fastapi, transcription, audio-conversion, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- LoredCast/filewizard (main) score 46

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:35.934749+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:45:36.027209+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/LoredCast/filewizard (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:35.934749+00:00, sha 7d30813edac0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.