CbXManager

Easily create/extract cbz or cbr files with a python script, can split and adapt to manga read order

Notes

There are two tools here:

• cbxManager
• regroupImages

pip install --no-deps -r requirements.txt

CbXManager Purpose

I need to manage book or images and sometimes I need to deal with the folder and another with the cbz file. CbXManager can guess the input and:

If the input is a folder -> it will create a cbz If the input is a cbz it will extract it

I added some options: like splitting the wide images in two and reverse the read order to adapt to manga.

Example

myFolder/image1.jpg
         image2.jpg
         image3.jpg
         image4.jpg

When running the foolowing command:

python cbxmanager.py myfolder/

We will have:

myFolder/image1.jpg
         image2.jpg
         image3.jpg
         image4.jpg
myFolder.cbz

And inside myFolder.cbz are all the images.

And if I run:

python cbxmanager.py myfolder.cbz

It will extract the cbz to the original folder.

Options

• -c option to cut the image in two parts
  • -r reverse the lecture order (only when -c is used else ignored)
• -v verbose mode activated

regroupImages Purpose

regroupImages will parse a folder and it's direct subfolders to create volumes of around 170 images (by default).

It will first finish the current folder before finishing the Volume:

Example:

myFolder/chapter01/image1.jpg
                   ...
                   image100.jpg
myFolder/chapter02/image1.jpg
                   ...
                   image100.jpg
myFolder/chapter03/image1.jpg
                   ...
                   image100.jpg

Command:

python3 regroupImages.py --delete /path/to/myFolder/

Will result in:

Vol 01.cbz (200 images inside: chapter 01 & 02)
Vol 02.cbz (100 images inside: chapter 03

Options

• --delete delete the folders/images as they are put in the .cbz
• --limit change the 170 that is an empirical value that is working well for me.

Notes

It can only generate cbz and does not do the complicated things that cbxManager do.