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Old 10-11-2022, 10:47 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by littlenellie View Post
When I convert a *.docx to an epub via the Calibre library software it picks up the files metadata - which is great, exactly what I want.

However, when I do the same conversion via the command line using 'ebook-convert' I can only get meta to appear if I've manually input it as part of the syntax.

Should ebook-convert pick up file metadata? I've tried every which way to get this to work without success.
Works for me with with a docx created in current version of Word, see attachment

The command used was: ebook-convert blah.docx blah.epub

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