Manga and comic archives

A CBZ or ZIP archive of images is ingested as a single item, like an image: one entry in the grid, one set of tags, one rating. Its thumbnail is the first page, and its detail page adds Open in reader and See all pages.

The reader remembers where you stopped: come back and the button reads Open in reader (p. 12) and takes you there.

If the archive carries a ComicInfo.xml, its series, author and other fields show in a read-only metadata panel. Re-extract metadata under Settings -> Maintenance re-parses it after the archive changed on disk.

The auto-tagger tags an archive from its pages, merging the per-page results into one set of tags for the whole item.

Extracting a page#

A single page can be pulled out of the archive as an image of its own: Extract in the reader bar (or the e key) saves the current page as a new file in your upload folder, ingests it, and takes you to its detail page to tag it.

Turning an archive into a collection#

Sometimes an archive should be a set of separate images: you want to tag each page on its own, drop the credit pages, or keep only a few variants. Generate collection on the archive’s detail page does allows you to unpack it. Every page is saved as its own image, ingested, and filed into a collection you name, in page order.

The pages land together in their own folder inside your upload folder, named after the archive. Each page is linked back to the archive as a derivative, so you can always find where it came from.

Nothing is deleted: the archive stays exactly as it was, and none of its tags are copied onto the pages. If a page is identical (same hash) to an image you already have, that existing image joins the collection instead of being duplicated.

The reverse action, packing a collection into an archive, is in Collections.