Thread: Configure metadata from pdf import by Calibre
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Old 04-02-2015, 10:18 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by iostrym View Post
Thanks a lot for taking time to answer me. It seems I'm not clear enough. My problem has nothing to do with metadata download from ISBN value.

I'm editing PDF and epub outside calibre. When one epub or PDF is modified I have to delete the old in calibre and import the new one. So I would like that all metadata from the new PDF to be automatically reimported in calibre (tag, author and so on)
In epub i write, I use ISBN to store a version number this way the ISBN from my epub is recognized in calibre. And it works.
Is there a solution for calibre to do the same as there is no official metadata for ISBN in PDF ?
I'm missing a documentation on how calibre import metadata from PDF in calibre.
And on internet everyone is interested in calibre to write metadata in PDF from calibre metadata whereas I want to do exactly the opposite: configure the way calibre import metadata from a PDF...

Am I more understandable ?

Regards
@iostrym - I need to apologise to both yourself and Tracker Systems. PDF XChange (free) does support XMP metadata - in the sense that it can display it. I didn't click enough buttons

I checked a number of my PDFs, and none have any dc:identifier elements - although they have other dc elements such as creator, language, title.

Try this - in Edit Metadata select the PDF format, and click Blue button, it does update other columns but as I don't have any PDF's with identifiers...

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Also see ==>> ebook-meta and calibredb set_metadata commands,

Curious - what are using to update the dc:identifiers in the PDF?

BR
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