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10.5: Use Automator to create audiobooks from PDFs
Authored by: chrischram on Wed, Apr 30 2008 at 9:52PM PDT

FWIW, here is the bare skeleton of an Automator workflow that can do the whole conversion (minus the cleanup script, which someone else can figure out how to sandwich in there).

Get Speciﬁed Finder Items
Extract PDF Text
Open Finder Items (in TextEdit)
Get Contents of TextEdit Document
Text to Audio File
Import Audio Files
Add Songs to Playlist

The parameters of the several actions should be pretty straightforward (I hope) to figure out.