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Adding PDF Scanned book

Hi everyone,

Recently, I photographed with my phone a whole book, which I wanted to keep - It belongs to a library.
After I took all the shots, I put them all into a PDF file. Now, I want to add that PDF to my Library on Calibre.
First, whenever I was Browsing my computer with Calibre the book wouldn't show up. I got to work around this by having Calibre Showing all files. Now, when I try to add the book, I get the following error:

calibre, version 3.21.0
WARNING: Errors while adding: There were problems adding some files, click "Show details" for more information

Code:

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Failed to add the file /home/me/Documentos/Biblioteca/The book to the book: The Book

With error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/add.py", line 430, in add_formats

    if self.db.add_format(book_id, fmt, path, run_hooks=False, replace=replace):

  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/db/cache.py", line 1411, in add_format

    size, fname = self._do_add_format(book_id, fmt, stream, name)

  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/db/cache.py", line 1378, in _do_add_format

    size, fname = self.backend.add_format(book_id, fmt, stream, title, author, path, name, mtime=mtime)

  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/db/backend.py", line 1495, in add_format

    fname = self.construct_file_name(book_id, title, author, len(fmt))

  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/db/backend.py", line 1199, in construct_file_name

    raise ValueError('Extension length too long: %d' % extlen)

ValueError: Extension length too long: 106

What can I do to fix this?

TL;DR: I have a PDF with a bunch of photos from a book but I can't add it to Calibre. How to fix this?

I think it's related to the name of the file.

Quote:

Originally Posted by PeterT (Post 3791737)

I think it's related to the name of the file.

Any ideia? Could it be too long? Or the fact that it has some special caracters? like ã

Try calling it "a.pdf" and see if that helps.

@david55555 : if it is a PDF then the file name should end with .pdf. The tool you used to create the pdf from the images should have done that for you.

FX: author name - book title.pdf

BR

Quote:

Originally Posted by PeterT (Post 3791737)

I think it's related to the name of the file.

actually, changing the file name and folder name didn't do it, but I get a Different error now:

calibre, version 3.21.0
AVISO: Erro ao adicionar: Houve problemas na adição de alguns ficheiros, carregue em 'Mostrar detalhes' para mais informações

Code:

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Falha ao adicionar o ficheiro /home/david/Documentos/Biblioteca/1/1 ao livro 1

Com o erro:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/add.py", line 430, in add_formats

    if self.db.add_format(book_id, fmt, path, run_hooks=False, replace=replace):

  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/db/cache.py", line 1411, in add_format

    size, fname = self._do_add_format(book_id, fmt, stream, name)

  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/db/cache.py", line 1378, in _do_add_format

    size, fname = self.backend.add_format(book_id, fmt, stream, title, author, path, name, mtime=mtime)

  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/db/backend.py", line 1519, in add_format

    with lopen(dest, 'wb') as f:

  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/startup.py", line 139, in local_open

    ans = open(name, mode, bufsize)

IOError: [Errno 2] Ficheiro ou directoria inexistente: u'/home/david/Biblioteca do Calibre/Desconhecido/1 (11)/1 - Desconhecido./home/david/documentos/biblioteca/1/1'

Last line says FIle or directory doesn't exist.

I don't have this problem with any other books

Just drag the file into the book list and drop it.

I wish I could quote all, but I can't so nevermind. It was really as easy as add a .pdf in the end. Thanks guys, worked perfectly.

I would question why any help was offered to someone who to by all appearances is committing piracy and/or copyright violation.

Hmmm... borrowed a library book, took pictures with a phone of all pages and created a pdf of the image files and now want to add it to calibre.

My apologies to any moderators whose toes I've stomped on.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DNSB (Post 3791789)

Oops I overlooked that!

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Quote:

Originally Posted by PeterT (Post 3791818)

Oops I overlooked that!

same here - my eyes went straight to the error text.

BR