[GUI Plugin] AI Reconcile Metadata

[ilsa]

Hi all,

I've developed my first plugin for Calibre and I wanted to introduce it here to get feedback. I hate managing metadata, so I wanted a plugin that could do a decent job of updating it for me. It combines both AI and lookup sources to obtain, sanity check, and update book metadata.

Most of what it can do can already be handled individually by other plugins. What I am hoping this plugin will do, is eliminate the one problem you have dealing with separate plugins: Updates from one plugin may clobber another, requiring you to carefully monitor progress as you update.

First it uses AI to analyze the cover and beginning of a book to find identifiers and other common metadata stored by Calibre. If it is successful in obtaining an identifier (eg: ISBN) then it will also perform a lookup for additional metadata. It will then combine everything it finds into a final version before giving the user a chance to review and save. It should also work on image-only PDFs.

As of the current version, the AI portion on supports ollama or other local openai-compatible endpoint, with a vision-capable model (not OCR-only but a full vision model). I have had good success with Ornith-1.5.

Thank you!