MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Problems with very huge collection in Arabic

hsawires · 09-24-2013, 03:40 PM

Hi
this is my first time here in calibre forum, I was really impressed what that software can do.

I have some problems using Calibre, I have a very huge collection of PDF's almost 100 GB of Files about 12,000 books and the most of them have a file name written in Arabic character (left to right) .

my problems is:

Calibre takes very long time importing this huge list into another location where Calibre library are stored.
when Calibre make its library it did not recognize the Arabic letters of the files and folders where I grab the list. and make another copy of the files and folder with nonsense Latin characters, while when I save a book from Calibre to another location it save it correctly. the same problem occurred when I generate a cover.
the extracted covers from the pdfs are so huge it extracted it with the same size saved in the PDF which is cost me extra space and make my collection huger.

my question is, how can I import my PDF's into Calibre database without letting Calibre make another collection on my disk to store the files again, and if there is a method dose it make Calibre faster collecting data?
and how can I configure Calibre to recognize Arabic (RTL) letters? and have can I reduce the size of the extracted cover pages?

Thank you.

09-24-2013, 03:40 PM	#1
hsawires Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2013 Device: Galaxy Note 10.1	Problems with very huge collection in Arabic Hi this is my first time here in calibre forum, I was really impressed what that software can do. I have some problems using Calibre, I have a very huge collection of PDF's almost 100 GB of Files about 12,000 books and the most of them have a file name written in Arabic character (left to right) . my problems is: Calibre takes very long time importing this huge list into another location where Calibre library are stored. when Calibre make its library it did not recognize the Arabic letters of the files and folders where I grab the list. and make another copy of the files and folder with nonsense Latin characters, while when I save a book from Calibre to another location it save it correctly. the same problem occurred when I generate a cover. the extracted covers from the pdfs are so huge it extracted it with the same size saved in the PDF which is cost me extra space and make my collection huger. my question is, how can I import my PDF's into Calibre database without letting Calibre make another collection on my disk to store the files again, and if there is a method dose it make Calibre faster collecting data? and how can I configure Calibre to recognize Arabic (RTL) letters? and have can I reduce the size of the extracted cover pages? Thank you.