Readium CLI

This is where we're migrating the command-line and server capabilities of the go-toolkit to. More documentation coming soon!

Command line utility

The readium command provides utilities to parse and generate Web Publications.

To install readium in ~/go/bin, run make install. Use make build to build the binary in the current directory.

Generating a Readium Web Publication Manifest

The readium manifest command will parse a publication file (such as EPUB, PDF, audiobook, etc.) and build a Readium Web Publication Manifest for it. The JSON manifest is printed to stdout.

Examples:

• Print out a compact JSON RWPM.

  readium manifest publication.epub

• Pretty-print a JSON RWPM using two-space indent.

  readium manifest --indent "  " publication.epub

• Extract the publication title with jq.

  readium manifest publication.epub | jq -r .metadata.title

Accessibility inference

readium manifest can infer additional accessibility metadata when they are missing, with the --infer-a11y flag. It takes one of the following arguments:

Option	Description
no (default)	No accessibility metadata will be inferred.
merged	Accessibility metadata will be inferred and merged with the authored ones in metadata.accessibility.
split	Accessibility metadata will be inferred but stored separately in metadata.inferredAccessibility.

readium manifest --infer-a11y=merged publication.epub  | jq .metadata

Inferred metadata

Key	Value	Inferred?
accessMode	auditory	If the publication contains a reference to an audio or video resource (inspect resources and readingOrder in RWPM)
accessMode	visual	If the publications contains a reference to an image or a video resource (inspect resources and readingOrder in RWPM)
accessModeSufficient	textual	If the publication is partially or fully accessible (WCAG A or above) Or if the publication does not contain any image, audio or video resource (inspect "resources" and "readingOrder" in RWPM) Or if the only image available can be identified as a cover
feature	displayTransformability	If the publication is fully accessible (WCAG AA or above) ⚠️ This property should only be inferred for reflowable EPUB files as it doesn't apply to other formats (FXL, PDF, audiobooks, CBZ/CBR).
feature	printPageNumbers	If the publications contains a page list (check for the presence of a pageList collection in RWPM)
feature	tableOfContents	If the publications contains a table of contents (check for the presence of a toc collection in RWPM)
feature	MathML	If the publication contains any resource with MathML (check for the presence of the contains property where the value is mathml in readingOrder or resources in RWPM)
feature	synchronizedAudioText	If the publication contains any reference to Media Overlays (TBD in RWPM)

HTTP streaming of local publications

readium serve starts an HTTP server that serves EPUB, CBZ and other compatible formats from a given directory. A log is printed to stdout.