CBZTool

CBZTool is an easy command line tool for creating and manipulating Comic Books stored in the .cbz and .cbr formats.

It can be used to extract pages from books, create new books from image files, combine multiple books into one, convert comics to PDF, and more.

Installing

Stable builds will be periodically posted on the Releases page. Simply extract the contents to a folder of your choice and invoke CBZTool.exe from the command line. Alternatively, you may compile the solution file provided in any modern version of Visual Studio.

Example usage

Extract all the images from a book:

CBZTool extract MyComic.cbz

Create a new book from a folder of images:

CBZTool compress MyFolder

Combine the first 6 pages of one book with the second 6 pages of another:

CBZTool extract MyFirstComic.cbz -o MyCombinedComic -p 1-6
CBZTool extract MySecondComic.cbz -o MyCombinedComic -p 7-12 -a
CBZTool compress MyCombinedComic

Create a copy of a book with improved image quality:

CBZTool extract MyComic.cbz -o MyEnhancedComic.cbz -denoise -whitebalance

All options

CBZ info PATH...
  (no options)

CBZTool extract PATH... [options]
  -o [path]         Specify the path to extract to (defaults to the input path minus the extension). Can be a directory, another CBZ file or a PDF
  -p [range]        Specify the range of pages to extract (ex: 1-10 2,4,6 7-*) (default=*)
  -a                Appends the extracted pages to the end of the directory, instead of replacing them (default=0)
  -denoise          Runs a noise reduction algorithm on the images when extracting (default=0)
  -whitebalance     Runs a white balancing algorithm on the images when extracting (default=0)
  -flipX/Y          Flips the images when extracting (default=0)
  -rot90/180/270    Rotates the images when extracting (default=0)
  -metadata         Specify that metadata (ComicInfo.xml) should also be extracted (default=0)
  -pdf:height       When extracting to PDF, specify the height of each page in millimetres (default=260)
  -pdf:width        When extracting to PDF, specify the width of each page in millimetres (default=auto)
  -pdf:bleed        When extracting to PDF, specify the bleed margin of each page in millimetres (default=0)
  -pdf:stretch      When extracting to PDF, specify that images should be stretched if the aspect ratio of the image does not match the aspect ratio of the page (default=0)

CBZTool compress PATH... [options]
  -o [directory]    Specify the file to compress to (defaults to the input path with the .cbz extension appended)
  -p [range]        Specify the range of pages to compress (ex: 1-10 2,4,6 7-*) (default=*)
  -a                Appends the extracted pages to the end of the archive, instead of replacing it (default=0)
  -metadata         Specify that metadata (ComicInfo.xml) should also be added (default=0)