Thread: Merging a collection of files into one book and record
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Old 06-18-2012, 03:29 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by nicknefarious View Post
I added a bunch of files that I thought were individual books but turns out they were all each a .pdf file of a single page of one book. However there were atleast three books in this form. So I have a whole bunch of .pdf files (more than 1,000) that when searching by title I can separate from the rest of the library but there are no metadata searches I can do to separate the three books into their correct groupings. They all only have the filename as an identifier, nothing else. Every single one of the filenames is unique, there is no common string that I can search within the filename to group the files for each of these books together. Can someone tell me how I can do this?

Secondly, how can I, after sorting them into their correct book groupings, merge all of the files and records (each a .pdf file for one single page of the book) into one .pdf file and book record in the database?
For the first part, I can't think of a way to do in calibre. If there was a way to separate them before adding them to calibre, I would do it there: Separate them outside of calibre, add one book (set of PDFs) at a time and set the metadata so you can group them in calibre.

For the second part, I can only think of one way to do this. In calibre, convert all these PDFs to ePubs. Then use the Epub Merge plugin to merge them into one book. After that, you might want to do some editing in Sigil to get it looking better.

Neither of these is going to be pretty. I don't envy you the task.
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