bookvert
A tool to perform batch conversion of books.
This is a .cbz batch conversion tool which scans directories for image files, groups them by their directory and creates books out of them.
You can install bookvert with cargo:
Usage
The idea is that you have a group of semi-structured directories containing lexically sorted image files and you run bookvert against it. Like this:
That time I sorted books/Chapter 1/That time I sorted books/Chapter 1 - Fix/That time I sorted books/Chapter 2/
This is available as an example in the
examplesdirectory and can be run like this:
We then group all the books into catalogues. A catalogue is determine by all numerical components in the folder name of the book.
So we run bookvert against the examples directory above and there are two
folders which will be in catalogue #1. This then prompts bookvert to ask
the user to select which one to use:
Once you are done, if you set the name to That time I sorted books and you
select which directory to use for Chapter 1, bookvert will create That time I sorted books1.cbz and That time I sorted books2.cbz in the specified
output directory.
Policies
If you don't like the interactive mode, you can set a pick policy using the
--pick argument. This lets you specify how a book should be picked
depending on which catalogue it is part of.
For the most up-to-date information, se
--help.
Pick books with --pick
Format: [from=]to where from is an book number or range to match.
The range in from is specified as n..m (exclusive), n..=m (inclusive),
or n.. (open-ended) or .. (all). The to target can be first, last,
most-pages, a zero-based index, or a regular expression for the exact
match to pick.
Examples:
-p most-pagespicks the match with the most pages for all books.-p 3=firstpicks the first match for book number 3.-p 3=1picks the second match for book number 3.-p 1..=5=most-pagespicks the match with the most pages for books 1 through 5.-p fixwill match any book that contains the stringfix.