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Originally Posted by kaufman

I currently have use Calibre to manage my ePubs. I also have a library of 700 PDFs, that I currently organize out of Calibre by putting them in a folders hierarchy on the disk.

I would like to bring them into Calibre, but I dread the thought of adding titles and authors to 700 files. Ideally I would also like to tag them based on the folder, but that is much less onerous, since its only about 20 different folders.

Is there something built into Calibre that will parse PDFs for metadata, or perhaps some sort of plugin? Is there some other way to do this that I am not thinking of?

Thanks.

@kaufman - if a PDF a) contains no useful metadata (as is often the case - looking at you Neely Kroes) or their current file names are not amenable for the gleaning of metadata via a regex... but it does have its ISBN 'printed' in the first few pages, then you could use [GUI Plugin] Extract ISBN to do what it does, and then download the metadata from the usual places.

BR