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bjo · 07-26-2010, 06:16 PM

"There's a new Add Books Wizard on the ToDo list. It should be able to improve its ability to get metadata from the filename."

What's frustrating to me is the sense that Calibre gives me no say in the details of the conversion, eg if my startingpoint is an OCRed PDF where the space after a close-quote is often lost, I can theoretically go back and attack it with regexps, but this is pre- or post-processing, not central to Calibre's mechanisms.

But isn't Calibre effectively a library of regexps for searching and replacing particular patterns?

And couldn't it be 'opened up' so the user can preview each pattern Calibre thinks it's detected, and how it will be modified, and tweak this if it's not quite right? Or submit new patterns to its database?

07-26-2010, 06:16 PM	#4
bjo Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: none	(What's under the hood?) "There's a new Add Books Wizard on the ToDo list. It should be able to improve its ability to get metadata from the filename." What's frustrating to me is the sense that Calibre gives me no say in the details of the conversion, eg if my startingpoint is an OCRed PDF where the space after a close-quote is often lost, I can theoretically go back and attack it with regexps, but this is pre- or post-processing, not central to Calibre's mechanisms. But isn't Calibre effectively a library of regexps for searching and replacing particular patterns? And couldn't it be 'opened up' so the user can preview each pattern Calibre thinks it's detected, and how it will be modified, and tweak this if it's not quite right? Or submit new patterns to its database?