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Old 06-16-2012, 02:07 AM   #241
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The biggest use I personally make of it is where I am importing books where the title and author fields are not set, such as by the book having a random filename. Rather than manually typing it in you could extract isbn and do a metadata download with the option to overwrite title and author.

Metadata downloads with an isbn will all but guarantee you a better likelihood of the right metadata from the website, since most metadata plugins will lookup by isbn if available and fallback to title and author search if not. The latter being more error prone due to spelling errors, typos, series info in title field etc.

And a small minority undoubtedly use it because they are sufficiently fussy to want the isbn field to contain the value for thei specific edition of that book.
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Old 07-28-2012, 07:09 PM   #242
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group extract

hello kiwidude,

i'm wondering if its possible to add some sort of group limit to extraction?
i tried selecting all books but it will take to long to finish, the group limit will group the queues into 10, 20 or 50 (depends on how powerful the computer).

e.g.
  1. library 5000 books with no identifier
  2. using identifiers:"=false"
  3. select all the books
  4. extract isbn (group into 10 - slow computer/usb2)
  5. 5000 books = 500 groups (groupings could be similar to find duplicate)
  6. translate to 500 jobs
  7. --go to work - shut down computer--
  8. check calibre-jobs for what group you are in (N)
  9. close calibre
  10. --start calibre--
  11. extract isbn from group N to group N

something like that, is that possible? it will prevent calibre from hanging.

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Old 07-31-2012, 05:28 AM   #243
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Beta for next version

@stanmarsh - give this version a whirl. By default the batch size is 100, but you can increase/reduce it in Preferences -> Plugins -> Extract ISBN -> Configure plugin.

Note that there are a couple of side effects if the number of books you have selected is more than your batch size causing multiple jobs to be run:
  1. You will get prompted each and every time a batch completes. This will not be changed and is the same behaviour as what you see with bulk metadata downloads.
  2. As part of the output this plugin displays what books it did not even attempt to retrieve data for (e.g. book had no formats). This information will now get displayed on the first batch job completing only.
  3. There is an option which some users have turned on to execute a search to show which books have been updated. If you use this option, you are only going to see books for that batch. When the next batch completes, you will then only see books for that batch and so on.

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Old 08-01-2012, 05:15 AM   #244
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v1.4.3 Released

Changes in this release:
  • Split bulk extraction into batches with size changeable via plugin configuration
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Old 08-05-2012, 10:01 PM   #245
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hello kiwidude!

thanks for implementing the feature request! will test it out!
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Old 09-26-2012, 07:34 PM   #246
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Old 10-05-2012, 05:20 AM   #247
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Extract ISBN is really great at extracting ISBNs from the books text. But this made it stumble.

From "The Definitive Guide to How Computers Do Math: Featuring the Virtual Diy Calculator" page 2:
Code:
For general information on our other products and services please contact our Customer Care
Department within the U.S. at 877-762-2974, outside the U.S. at 317-572-3993 or fax 317-572-4002.
Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print,
however, may not be available in electronic format.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN-13 978-0471-73278-5
ISBN-10 0-471-73278-8
results in the log file:
Code:
      Invalid ISBN match: 877-762-2974 
      Valid ISBN10: 3175723993 
      Invalid ISBN match: 317-572-4002 
      Invalid ISBN match: -13 978-0471-73278 
      Invalid ISBN match: -10 0-471-73278-8
I understand that it detects 3175723993 as a valid ISBN. But maybe you could make it reparse substrings if the number it found is longer than 10/13 digits. Or maybe even look for the string ISBN.{,3}1[03] explicitly and give the numbers in it's vicinity higher precedence.
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Old 10-05-2012, 09:51 AM   #248
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Extract ISBN is really great at extracting ISBNs from the books text. But this made it stumble.

From "The Definitive Guide to How Computers Do Math: Featuring the Virtual Diy Calculator" page 2:
Code:
For general information on our other products and services please contact our Customer Care
Department within the U.S. at 877-762-2974, outside the U.S. at 317-572-3993 or fax 317-572-4002.
Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print,
however, may not be available in electronic format.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN-13 978-0471-73278-5
ISBN-10 0-471-73278-8
results in the log file:
Code:
      Invalid ISBN match: 877-762-2974 
      Valid ISBN10: 3175723993 
      Invalid ISBN match: 317-572-4002 
      Invalid ISBN match: -13 978-0471-73278 
      Invalid ISBN match: -10 0-471-73278-8
I understand that it detects 3175723993 as a valid ISBN. But maybe you could make it reparse substrings if the number it found is longer than 10/13 digits. Or maybe even look for the string ISBN.{,3}1[03] explicitly and give the numbers in it's vicinity higher precedence.
IMHO only 1 parse rule at a time should be used. the last 2 broke that rule and therefore failed to find a valid ISBN. Space or Dash, not both in the same substring

once found (10 character ISBN 10), the check digit should validate (the NANP phone number should fail in near 100% of the cases the FAX number is one of those edge cases )
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Old 10-05-2012, 05:45 PM   #249
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IMHO only 1 parse rule at a time should be used. the last 2 broke that rule and therefore failed to find a valid ISBN. Space or Dash, not both in the same substring
Well, yes and no. Had the publisher decided to use spaces instead of dashes, your suggestion would still find the number 13 978 0471 73278 5 which wouldn't be valid without parsing all substrings of 13 digits length.
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Well, yes and no. Had the publisher decided to use spaces instead of dashes, your suggestion would still find the number 13 978 0471 73278 5 which wouldn't be valid without parsing all substrings of 13 digits length.
have you seen a book written ISBN 10 or ISBN 13 ?

ISBN and ISBN13 are more normal (ISBN 10 is redundant. ISBN is 10 chars)
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have you seen a book written ISBN 10 or ISBN 13 ?
The blank or dash before the number isn't relevant. The regexp will (should) start matching at the first digit.
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ISBN and ISBN13 are more normal (ISBN 10 is redundant. ISBN is 10 chars)
You are right in saying it is redundant. That doesn't mean it won't be used by publishers.
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The blank or dash before the number isn't relevant. The regexp will (should) start matching at the first digit.
No it should start at the first Matching pattern:
The pattern should attempt to match starting at the first digit.
\d+\-\d+\-\d+\-(\d|X)
is one pattern, the first digit pair followed by a space should not be included in the match because it violates this pattern (dash separator)

Now if they had used spaces every place, you are correct, that the pattern should have started with the 10 (because we don't know where the line ends, we can')t tell that there were more digits than the pattern could capture if it had not started with the wrong number group

Because of all the various ways of printing the ISBN, lots of post capture validating needs to be done (The FAX number managed to MOD11 validate (a fairly rare case) ).
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No it should start at the first Matching pattern:
The pattern should attempt to match starting at the first digit.
\d+\-\d+\-\d+\-(\d|X)
is one pattern, the first digit pair followed by a space should not be included in the match because it violates this pattern (dash separator)
That was what I tried to express by the "should" in parenthesis. First I wrote will cause I would have implemented the pattern with a starting digit. Then I saw from the logfile that it is currently implemented differently, cause the match started with the dash.

The pattern you suggested will only match if the ISBN contains exactly three dashes. I'd implement something along the lines of \d(\d| |-)+(\d|X) and then validating all substrings consisting of 10 and 13 digits.

But I fail to see why we are discussing about the best way to implement this. I could see a point in a discussion with the maintainer of the plugin. But that would be kiwidude. It's his decision how he writes his plugin. I just wanted to point out a case in which the current implementation fails.
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I have noticed that during the exectution of the Extract ISBN plugin certain attempts take much more time than the others (the execution seems to hang to a particular % and the CPU time raises up), thus slowing down the whole search process.
Thereafter, a part of the files processed invariably fails to return any ISBN and one has to manually extract them anyway.
Therefore I wonder if the developer could work out some adjustable timeout in the GUI to limit the time wasted towards a single, high-probability failed search.
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Old 10-10-2012, 05:09 AM   #255
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@RotAnal - the majority of any computation involved in terms of "slowdown" is converting the book to a format it can extract the ISBN from. If your book is an EPUB (or indeed a PDF) then the performance will be as good as it is going to get, for any other format it must convert to EPUB behind the scenes which is where the lag is involved.

The actual time take searching for ISBN's is miniscule by comparison, and it is already optimised to only search a small proportion of pages at the front and back of the book rather than the whole thing.
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