ISBN Scanner

Tool to find ISBNs in ebook files and fetch metadata from online databases

Features

• WorldCat
• Tika
• JSON output
• Multi-threaded

Installation

Make sure you have CMake and Ninja installed.

Binary Release

yay -S libpugixml-dev mold

Compiling from Source

cmake -S . --preset=Release
cmake --build ./out/build/Release -j<cores>

Running Unit Tests

cmake -S . --preset=Test
cmake --build ./out/build/Test -j<cores>
./out/build/Test/scanner

Setup

Tika

docker run -p 127.0.0.1:9998:9998 apache/tika:latest

Usage

scanner -f filetypes.json -c scanner.toml -i <input directory> -o books.json

Using the Results

Recommend JQ

Roadmap

v0.1

• Better handling of the output JSON file
• Add rate limiting

v0.2

• Unit Tests
• Fuzz testing
• Add installation to CMake
• Changelog
• Complete README documentation

v0.3

• Progress bar
• Improve fuzzy matching on filenames/titles
• Goodreads API

v0.4

• Calibre compatible output