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chrisridd · 12-08-2023, 03:50 PM

I am wondering about importing a set of PDF magazine issues into my Calibre library.

If I import tham via "Add Books" I get poor results because currently the only metadata in the PDFs is the magazine name, and I get a bunch of hard to distinguish magazines with identical names. I need the year and issue number to be imported as well, which matches how the magazines are published.

I can script exiftool (not the first tool I'd have thought of) to write metadata into each PDF.

But what does Calibre read from a PDF and put into things like dates and number-in-series?

12-08-2023, 03:50 PM	#1
chrisridd Guru Posts: 946 Karma: 2146660 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: London, UK Device: Kobo Aura, Kobo Aura ONE, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	Importing PDFs with metadata I am wondering about importing a set of PDF magazine issues into my Calibre library. If I import tham via "Add Books" I get poor results because currently the only metadata in the PDFs is the magazine name, and I get a bunch of hard to distinguish magazines with identical names. I need the year and issue number to be imported as well, which matches how the magazines are published. I can script exiftool (not the first tool I'd have thought of) to write metadata into each PDF. But what does Calibre read from a PDF and put into things like dates and number-in-series?