dndsearch
This repository contains code to quickly search into the D&D5th edition source books. When you're DMing and need to quickly look up some rule in your books, you don't want to let the action settle. This tools will help you quickly check which page of which book you need to open.
This does not replace your books. You need the books. It will make finding relevant information in them faster.
Usage
Run yarn run export ./path-to-your-book.pdf. It will split it into several smaller
PDF files, take screenshots of each page, extract textual data and convert them
to a JSON file in ./records/.
Run yarn run push to push all the generated JSON files to Algolia.
Run yarn run serve to check a local version of the website and yarn run build to generate the files in the ./dist folder.
Structure
./scripts contains all the scripts called by yarn run. The
./scripts/website specifically contains the scripts related the front-end
part.
./lib contains all the code related to converting the PDF files to JSON
records. JSON files are extracted into ./records and a ./tmp folder is used
for caching results.
./src contains all the front-end code. Final website is written to ./dist.