Delete a specific image and external links- Modify ??

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Robert78

So I'll hire a freelance developper to do the job in Python without risk.

Rather than have them hack Modify ePub, I suggest they create a separate plugin that just removes the specific images from the selected books. Then when the Modify ePub plugin is updated you won't have to retro fit your image deletion feature.

BR

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

This issue does not happen in thousands of ePub.

Of course not. The image in question clearly says "1001 ebooks", so it is going to be in a mere 1001 epubs. That would be enough to not want to manually edit them. And in any case, even if @Robert78 is exaggerating for emphasis, it is clearly in enough of their books to be a nuisance. And there are some other common images/icons. Facebook, Twitter and others like that. And the Vellum icon is fairly common.

I cannot see anyone attempting to automate this for you.

Of course there is. In fact, @Robert78 is probably unlucky that those here who could do it are busy and haven't just written it for him. The coding part of my brain is happily busy elsewhere so this hasn't triggered it.

[Robert78]

[QUOTE=davidfor;4094553]Of course not. The image in question clearly says "1001 ebooks", so it is going to be in a mere 1001 epubs. That would be enough to not want to manually edit them. And in any case, even if @Robert78 is exaggerating for emphasis, it is clearly in enough of their books to be a nuisance. And there are some other common images/icons. Facebook, Twitter and others like that. And the Vellum icon is fairly common.

By searching with the quality check plugin / search epub, I've found 8 767 "1.PNG" occurences in my epubs with an estimated <1% false positive (I need to discriminate by the exact file size and image size I mentionned above).
So I'm not exagerating.
We could even imagine a fingerpint blacklist to let readers remove all the all well known ad craps at their own risk.

[JSWolf]

[QUOTE=Robert78;4094610]

Originally Posted by davidfor

Of course not. The image in question clearly says "1001 ebooks", so it is going to be in a mere 1001 epubs. That would be enough to not want to manually edit them. And in any case, even if @Robert78 is exaggerating for emphasis, it is clearly in enough of their books to be a nuisance. And there are some other common images/icons. Facebook, Twitter and others like that. And the Vellum icon is fairly common.

By searching with the quality check plugin / search epub, I've found 8 767 "1.PNG" occurences in my epubs with an estimated <1% false positive (I need to discriminate by the exact file size and image size I mentionned above).
So I'm not exagerating.
We could even imagine a fingerpint blacklist to let readers remove all the all well known ad craps at their own risk.

Can you post some well known titles so someone might have one or more of these to have a look? Thanks.

Also, are you sure you are really finding 1.png instead of ePub with files such as twitter-01.png. Using the quality check plugin, it will find matches that are not matches. What would help is if an exact match option in the search could be added to Quality Check.

[Robert78]

[QUOTE=JSWolf;4094681]

Originally Posted by Robert78

Can you post some well known titles so someone might have one or more of these to have a look? Thanks.

Also, are you sure you are really finding 1.png instead of ePub with files such as twitter-01.png. Using the quality check plugin, it will find matches that are not matches. What would help is if an exact match option in the search could be added to Quality Check.

One example of an epub with 8 references to the ad "1.png" in one book

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PeterT

As you said, very tough to support such a book with the ad displayed 8 times in the book.

I'm sure it's only a strict "1.png"



I've noticed there is a very few image size diffrences for the ad (3 variations to date), but this problem could be handled easily with a few passes with the different image dimension inputs like cover search of quality check

[BetterRed]

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I moved this issue into its own thread, it was clogging up the Modify ePub thread. If someone is minded to enhance the Modify ePub plugin to meet the OPs request they can reference this thread as background.

FTR: I share Rev. Bobs sentiments.

BR

[PeterT]

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PeterT