Merge chapters

[red-avtovo]

Once I download a list of chapters (issues), it would be amazing to be able to merge them together and have only 1 file that could be effortlessly imported.
Is that something that you could provide?

Especially in comics with lots of chapters it makes it cumbersome to work with tons of files instead of one really thick "book"

[sendhelpls]

I'm not sure about windows synates, but here we go:

Step 1: move every pdf file into one directory:
for %i in (*.pdf) do move "%i" \all - windows
find . -type f -exec mv -i {} all/ \; - linux

Step 2: rename each file to only chapter number.
for %i in (*-*.pdf) do move "%i" "%i" - windows
for file in *-*.pdf; do mv "$file" "${file##*-}";done - linux

Step 3: merge the pdf files.
for this, install the pypdf library

merger file attached as txt, but here is the code
comic merger.txt

import os
from pypdf import PdfMerger
import re

def find_pdf_files(directory):
    pdf_files = []
    for root, _, files in os.walk(directory):
        for file in files:
            if file.endswith('.pdf'):
                file_path = os.path.join(root, file)
                pdf_files.append(file_path)
                print(f'added {str(file)} to the list')
    return pdf_files

pdfs = find_pdf_files(os.getcwd())
pdfs = pdf_files_sorted = sorted(pdfs, key=lambda x: [int(s) if s.isdigit() else s.lower() for s in re.split(r'(\d+)', x)])

merger = PdfMerger()

print('merging...')
for pdf in pdfs:
    print(f'merged {pdf}.')
    merger.append(pdf)

merger.write("merged.pdf")
merger.close()

[Girbons]

That would be really cool @red-avtovo