I am working on a new release of Comic Utility Belt
This is taking longer than I hoped, but I am working as fast as I can and doing a lot of testing to ensure it is working correctly.
The major changes are:
1) Add page counts to CBR / CBZ / PDF files.
This will scan all of your comics and rename them to something like MyComic [[32 pg]].cbz
2) Rewrite of logic to identify scanner tag pages
I did a major rewrite of how the scanner tag pages are detected to ensure they are not exported as the cover page. The old logic only looked at the file names within the archive files. The new logic is more advanced and has less false positive matches. It checks the page content rather than just the file name to identify a large number of known scanner tag pages so it wont export those as the cover page.
3) New Feature - User Defined "Not Cover" Pages
You will be able to define pages that are definately not a cover page using two methods
Based on the inner file name within the comic archive file
You can edit the settings file and specify file names using wildcards Example : FooScan?blah.jp.
This works best for scanner tag pages that are appear early in an alphabetically sorted list such as Albatros.jpg as they can sometimes be treated as the cover page. Some scanners like their tag page to appear first and this works best to prevent those pages being treated as the cover page
Based on the page image (MD5 matching)
If a scanner tag page is incorrectly identified as a cover page, you can export it to the settings folder. After you do that, the page will always be treated as "not a cover page". The page matching logic is based on the the page image rather than the file name. This works well for scanner tag pages that are always the exact same image in every comic file.
Stay tuned to get the new release. I am hoping to release it in the next few weeks
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I am working on a new release of Comic Utility Belt
This is taking longer than I hoped, but I am working as fast as I can and doing a lot of testing to ensure it is working correctly.
The major changes are:
1) Add page counts to CBR / CBZ / PDF files.
This will scan all of your comics and rename them to something like MyComic [[32 pg]].cbz
2) Rewrite of logic to identify scanner tag pages
I did a major rewrite of how the scanner tag pages are detected to ensure they are not exported as the cover page. The old logic only looked at the file names within the archive files. The new logic is more advanced and has less false positive matches. It checks the page content rather than just the file name to identify a large number of known scanner tag pages so it wont export those as the cover page.
3) New Feature - User Defined "Not Cover" Pages
You will be able to define pages that are definately not a cover page using two methods
You can edit the settings file and specify file names using wildcards Example : FooScan?blah.jp.
This works best for scanner tag pages that are appear early in an alphabetically sorted list such as Albatros.jpg as they can sometimes be treated as the cover page. Some scanners like their tag page to appear first and this works best to prevent those pages being treated as the cover page
If a scanner tag page is incorrectly identified as a cover page, you can export it to the settings folder. After you do that, the page will always be treated as "not a cover page". The page matching logic is based on the the page image rather than the file name. This works well for scanner tag pages that are always the exact same image in every comic file.
Stay tuned to get the new release. I am hoping to release it in the next few weeks
I forgot to mention .... support for the WEBP image format has been added as that format is becoming more popular