[GUI Plugin] Quality Check

[JimmXinu]

It doesn't say anywhere obvious, but the Quality Check search uses a Regular Expression aka regexp.

While a powerful matching tool, regexp has some limitations. Not all boolean logic forms easily map to regular expressions.

To get (test1|test2) and (test3|test4), you'd need to also match everything in between. And in both directions.

Something like this maybe:

(((test1|test2).*(test3|test4))|((test3|test4).*(test1|test2)))

Honestly, you might be better served by doing one search, to reduce the search set, then run the second.

I assume you are also aware of Calibre's built-in full text search feature?

[Trester99]

Thanks JimmXinu!!

I feel better now, I thought that I had tried all of the "and" variants and nothing worked. I have been running the two "or" statements one after the other, so I will continue that method.

I had read that indexing a database takes a long time so that is why I haven't done it. Guess I should really try it before discounting it.

Thanks again, I really appreciate you taking the time to respond!!!!

[kiwidude]

Release Notes:
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...check-v1.13.15

Requested by Comfy.n

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

Release Notes:
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...check-v1.13.15

Requested by Comfy.n

Thank you so much for this addition!

I often use this plugin for more detailed FTS, like searching for words after/before some punctuation marks, case-sensitive queries to match the beginning of a sentence and so on:




By the way I recently started customising the CSS in the results log, that's why the screenshots above don't match the original colors in dark mode!

[Comfy.n]

and this is me finding what books contain vitamins

(just to give an example of the number of matches use, I hope)

[Trester99]

I have a large # of ebooks that I am trying to find all of the covers that obviously have bad aspect ratio's. When I use the feature "check dimensions" and enter 500w x 250h (example) with "less than" condition, the algorithm returns all covers less than 500w, but ignores the 250h and returns ALL covers less than 500w only.

[kiwidude]

Originally Posted by Trester99

I have a large # of ebooks that I am trying to find all of the covers that obviously have bad aspect ratio's. When I use the feature "check dimensions" and enter 500w x 250h (example) with "less than" condition, the algorithm returns all covers less than 500w, but ignores the 250h and returns ALL covers less than 500w only.

Yes the functionality at the moment is about finding excessively small or large covers based on either dimension exceeding those inputs. So if you enter 500w x 250h with operator "less than" then it will return all books that are either < 500w OR < 250h

I think if you explicitly want to check aspect ratio then it would have to be added to that dialog as a separate option. Where you specify the proportions you want as raw numbers (e.g. 3:4) and have a similar dropdown of operators for that ratio. Will take a look at adding that...

[kiwidude]

Please give this version a whirl for feedback purposes on the addition of the cover aspect ratio feature. If it is ok as is then will release it in a few days.

EDIT: Removed as officially released

[Trester99]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

Please give this version a whirl for feedback purposes on the addition of the cover aspect ratio feature. If it is ok as is then will release it in a few days.

Works Great! Thanks for taking the time to add this feature. Cleaning up a large library would not be possible without your Quality Check Plugin. A contribution has been sent!

[kiwidude]

Release Notes
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...check-v1.13.16

@Trester99 - thanks for the feedback, and donation!

[ownedbycats]

While the option for searching authors with a comma helps find improperly separated authors, is there also an option that checks for "and"? I recently found a book where the authors were (non-)separated by that.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

While the option for searching authors with a comma helps find improperly separated authors, is there also an option that checks for "and"? I recently found a book where the authors were (non-)separated by that.

Calibre accepts "and" as an authors separator, converting it to '&'. What problem did the "and" cause for you?

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by chaley

Calibre accepts "and" as an authors separator, converting it to '&'. What problem did the "and" cause for you?

I have a few authors that legitimately use "and", which doesn't separate them:



Aside from this, I also recently found that a book imported some 5 years ago had the authors not separated because of "and" instead of "&." I just wanted to check there were no other cases of this (aside from various company names).

[chaley]

Then you have almost certainly set the tweak "Splitting multiple author names (ID: authors_split_regex)" to not include "and".

The default of that tweak is

authors_split_regex = '(?i),?\\s+(and|with)\\s+'

[ownedbycats]

Yup, at some point I'd removed the 'and'. I think this was to handle that specific Literature and Latte case above.

authors_split_regex = '(?i),?\\s+(with)\\s+'