📚 AI Book Formatter & Art Generator (GPT-5 Edition)

Turn raw text, Google Docs, or messy articles into professional eBooks (PDF, EPUB, HTML). Features "Smart Remix" to rewrite content, GPT-5 logic for structuring, and DALL-E 3 for art.

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🚀 What is this Actor?

The AI Book Formatter is a complete digital publishing studio. It replaces the work of a human editor, ghostwriter, typesetter, and illustrator.

It takes any text input—whether it's a chaotic brain dump, a 10,000-word blog post, or a raw manuscript—and transforms it into a polished, structured book.

✨ New in v2.0 (GPT-5 Update)

• 🧠 GPT-5.1 Support: Uses the latest reasoning models for superior logical structuring.
• 🎛️ Smart Remix Engine: Can rewrite your text styles (e.g., turn a dry manual into a "Story," or simplify complex text for kids).
• 💰 Cost Estimator: Run a "Dry Run" to see exactly how much the AI will cost before spending a cent.
• 🌍 Global Cache: Saves your progress permanently. If the server restarts, you don't pay to re-process the same text twice.

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🛠️ Key Features

1. Smart Structuring & Ghostwriting

• Auto-Structure: Have a long article with no chapters? The AI will logically divide it, create chapter titles, and insert breaks automatically.
• Remix Modes: Choose how the AI treats your text:
  • 🛡️ Maintain Original: Fixes grammar/formatting only.
  • 🐉 Storyteller: Rewrites non-fiction with a narrative flair.
  • 🎓 Academic: Upgrades vocabulary to a formal tone.
  • 👶 Simplify: Rewrites text to a Grade 5 reading level.

2. Professional Design

• 7 Visual Themes: Export your book in Classic Serif, Modern Sans, Sepia (Novel style), Dark Mode, or Swiss Minimalist.
• Auto-TOC: Generates a clickable Table of Contents.
• AI Illustrations: Optionally generates DALL-E 3 art for chapter headers based on the context of that specific chapter.

3. Multi-Format Export

One run generates all these files in the Key-Value Store:

• 📄 PDF: Print-ready 6x9" layout.
• 📱 EPUB: Ready for Kindle, Apple Books, and e-readers.
• 🌐 HTML: Beautiful single-page web book.
• 📝 Markdown: Clean source code for editing.

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⚙️ How to Use (Configuration)

This Actor uses the Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) model. You pay OpenAI directly for intelligence, and Apify for the processing logic.

1. Input Source 📄

You can provide content in two ways:

• Document Link: Paste a link to a Google Doc (share setting: "Anyone with link"), Dropbox file, or direct .docx/.txt URL. Recommended for long books.
• Paste Text: Directly paste raw text into the editor.

2. Select AI Model 🧠

• GPT-5-Mini: Best value. Extremely fast and cheap ($0.25 / 1M input tokens). Recommended for formatting.
• GPT-5.1 / GPT-5: Flagship reasoning. Best for "Remixing" or complex rewriting tasks ($1.25 / 1M input).

3. Image Frequency (Budget Control) 🖼️

DALL-E 3 images cost $0.04 each. Use this setting to control your spend:

• None: Text only ($0.00).
• Cover Only: Generates 1 image ($0.04).
• Sparse: Image every 5 chapters.
• Moderate: Image every 3 chapters.
• All: Image for every single chapter (Premium feel).

4. Writing Style (The Remix) ✍️

• Original: Fixes typos/headers only.
• Auto-Structure: Turns unstructured text (like transcripts) into Chapters.
• Storyteller / Simplify / Academic: Rewrites the content to match the tone.

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💰 Pricing & Cost Estimation

"How much will this cost?"

Use the Dry Run toggle! If you enable Dry Run, the Actor scans your text, calculates token usage + image count, and prints a detailed receipt in the log without generating files or charging you fees.

Estimated Costs (GPT-5 Mini):

• Short Story (5k words): ~$0.02 (Text) + Images.
• Novel (50k words): ~$0.15 (Text) + Images.

Note: Apify charges a small fixed fee per successful book generation to cover the PDF rendering engine and logic.

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🔄 Caching & Rebuilds

This Actor features Global Persistence. If you process a book once, we save the result in a permanent cache.

• Benefit: If you want to re-download the PDF or EPUB later, it's FREE (no OpenAI calls).
• Changing Styles: If you change the Theme or Writing Style, you MUST check the "Force Rebuild" box to tell the AI to ignore the cache and regenerate the text from scratch (incurring API costs again).

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❓ FAQ

Q: My PDF generation failed on a huge book (1000+ pages). A: Generating massive PDFs requires RAM. Go to the Actor Settings tab and increase Memory to 4096 MB or higher, then resurrect the run.

Q: Can I use this for non-English books? A: Yes! The Actor automatically detects the language (Spanish, French, German, etc.) and prompts the AI to maintain that language during formatting.

Q: Does "Auto-Structure" write content for me? A: It organizes your content. It will break walls of text into logical chapters with titles, but it will not invent new plot points unless you use "Storyteller" mode to expand descriptions.

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👨‍💻 Data Privacy

Your book content is processed transiently. It is sent to OpenAI for processing (subject to their data policy) and converted into files stored in your private Apify Key-Value store. We do not retain your intellectual property.