Importing PDFs, using filename and using PDF cover

Alex_Sanders · 10-28-2023, 10:18 PM

Calibre seems to offer a choice of extracting title and author information from "metadata" in a file or from the filename on disk (in Windows), depending on a selection box in preferences > input/output > "use metadata from file contents ... "
For PDFs, when this selection is checked, the title is often very different from the filename (and relatively useless, requiring editing I would like to avoid). I want to use the filename.
But when I uncheck the box, Calibre stops generating thumbnails for its GUI after importing the PDF. So it seems, when one is importing a PDF, one has an unfortunate choice between using the disk filename as the title or getting Calibre to generate a nice cover for the book for its GUI.
Is there a way to both use the filename from the file and get Calibre to generate a thumbnail from the cover of the book?

kovidgoyal · 10-28-2023, 10:38 PM

get the metadata from the filename and after importing use the bulk edit metadata tool to set the cover from the file.

10-28-2023, 10:18 PM	#1
Alex_Sanders Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2023 Device: none	Importing PDFs, using filename and using PDF cover Calibre seems to offer a choice of extracting title and author information from "metadata" in a file or from the filename on disk (in Windows), depending on a selection box in preferences > input/output > "use metadata from file contents ... " For PDFs, when this selection is checked, the title is often very different from the filename (and relatively useless, requiring editing I would like to avoid). I want to use the filename. But when I uncheck the box, Calibre stops generating thumbnails for its GUI after importing the PDF. So it seems, when one is importing a PDF, one has an unfortunate choice between using the disk filename as the title or getting Calibre to generate a nice cover for the book for its GUI. Is there a way to both use the filename from the file and get Calibre to generate a thumbnail from the cover of the book?

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10-28-2023, 10:38 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,604 Karma: 28548974 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	get the metadata from the filename and after importing use the bulk edit metadata tool to set the cover from the file.

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