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Old 07-29-2019, 04:45 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Adoby View Post
You are in luck! Calibre is the perfect tool for what you need.

1. Import with the full filename as the title.

2. Then use a couple of search and replace with regular expressions to populate other fields from the title. Authors, series and custom fields so on.

3. Do a final search and replace to remove everything from the title, except the title.

This is the normal process I use when adding books with descriptive AND uniform filenames to calibre.

This assume there is a reason the metadata is Not already embedded (that way is better and faster)
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